Our Confidential Reporting Policy for Contractors, Sub-Contractors and Agency Workers
This policy outlines the procedure and policy for Contractors, Sub-Contractors and Agency workers to highlight errors or malpractice within the Council, without fear of harassment or victimisation.
The Aims and Scope of this policy is outlined below; to read the policy in full please download it from the foot of this page.
This policy aims to:
- encourage you to feel confident in raising serious concerns and to question and act upon concerns about practice
- provide avenues for you to raise those concerns and receive feedback on any action taken
- ensure that you receive a response to your concerns and that you are aware of how to pursue them if you are not satisfied
- reassure you that you will be protected from possible reprisals or victimisation if you have a reasonable belief that you have made any disclosure in good faith.
For employees there are existing procedures in place to enable them to lodge a grievance relating to their own employment. The Confidential Reporting Policy is intended to cover major concerns that fall outside the scope of other procedures. These include:
- conduct which is an offence or a breach of law
- disclosures related to miscarriages of justice
- health and safety risks, including risks to the public as well as other employees
- damage to the environment
- the unauthorised use of public funds
- possible fraud and corruption
- sexual or physical abuse of clients, or
- other unethical conduct.
Thus, any serious concerns that you have about any aspect of service provision or the conduct of officers or members of the Council or others acting on behalf of the Council can be reported under the Confidential Reporting Policy. This may be about something that:
- makes you feel uncomfortable in terms of known standards, your experience or the standards you believe the Council subscribes to; or
- is against the Council’s Standing Orders and policies; or
- falls below established standards of practice; or
- amounts to improper conduct.
To read the rest of this policy, please download it in full below.
Downloads
This document outlines the full policy and procedure for confidentially reporting concerns of malpractice within the council. (48.3 KB)
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