Issue - meetings
Whistleblowing Update
Meeting: 29/03/2018 - Audit Committee (Item 4)
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Minutes:
Asmat Hussain, Corporate Director for Governance informed Members this was the second quarterly update to the Committee and refered Members to point 3.1 which detailed the number of cases outstanding since the last committee report.
Eleven concerns were outstanding of which five have been concluded. Of those five concerns, two were upheld, one partially and three were not upheld.
Ms Hussain referred Members to point 3.2 and the lessons learnt from cases investigated. In particular she drew attention to appendix 1 which set out anonymised details of the whistleblowing cases that were upheld.
Members of the Committee made the following comments and asked questions:
· How are the whistleblowers kept informed about the investigations?
· How long are matters taking to resolve from start to finish?
· Happy with the report style and content of the report.
· When a whistleblowing case has led to changes in policy or procedure, can the Committee have regular updates on how the change made is leading to improvements and bedding in.
The Audit Committee NOTED the whistleblowing update and the investigation monitoring information contained within the report as well as Appendix 1.