Agenda item - Updated Whistleblowing Policy

RESOLVED –

That the Audit, Standards, and General Purposes Committee:

1)       Note the information in this report and agrees to receive an annual report on the Whistleblowing Policy, process and themes.

2)       Approves the updated Whistleblowing Policy as detailed in Appendix 1.

3)       Authorise the Council’s Monitoring Officer to publish the updated Whistleblowing Policy on the Council’s intranet and website, and to make any changes they consider to be necessary or incidental to ensure consistency with the Council’s other complaints-related arrangements.

51.1    The committee considered the updated Whistleblowing Policy report to set out the process and data relating to whistleblowing complaints for information.

51.2    Councillors Gauge, Guilmant, Mackey, and West asked questions and contributed to the debate of the report.

51.3    RESOLVED –

That the Audit, Standards, and General Purposes Committee:

1)       Note the information in this report and agrees to receive an annual report on the Whistleblowing Policy, process and themes.

2)       Approves the updated Whistleblowing Policy as detailed in Appendix 1.

3)       Authorise the Council’s Monitoring Officer to publish the updated Whistleblowing Policy on the Council’s intranet and website, and to make any changes they consider to be necessary or incidental to ensure consistency with the Council’s other complaints-related arrangements.