The policy is intended to encourage and enable staff and contractors to raise serious concerns about any aspect of the council's work.
Concerns can include:
- a criminal offence is being committed
- the law is being broken
- there's a miscarriage of justice
- someone's health or safety is being endangered
- the environment is being damaged
- the council's policies or standing orders are being broken
- recognised standards or good practice are being deliberately ignored
- information about these failings is being deliberately concealed
Alternatively please email us at hbcwhistle@harrogate.gov.uk