How to Raise a Concern. If the employee is offered a bribe, or are asked to make one, or if they suspect that any bribery, corruption has occurred or may occur, they must notify their manager or report it in accordance with procedure for Whistleblowing.
How to Raise a Concern. As a first step, you should normally raise concerns with your immediate manager or their manager. This depends, however, on the seriousness and sensitivity of the issues involved and who you think may be involved in the malpractice, for example. If you believe that your immediate line manager or another Senior Manager is involved, you should approach your Head of Department or Deputy Divisional Director or, if you feel that they may be involved your Executive Director. The guiding rule is you should address your complaint to a level of management who you believe has no possible involvement. Whilst this procedure could be used to raise concerns about financial irregularities or fraud, the Trust already has in place a Fraud Response Plan which encourages staff to raise such issues: With their line manager or Head of Department With the Finance Director or Director Human Resources where local management may be implicated With the Chair of the Audit Committee or any other member of that Committee in cases where they wish to report suspicions confidentially With the Chief Internal Auditor in exceptional cases We realise that colleagues from partner organisations may on occasions have concerns about our services. In Appendix 3 attached we suggest how they may raise such concerns. Similarly, you may through your work with Sheffield Care Trust have concerns about services provided by other organisations who work in partnership with the Trust, and you may be unsure about how to raise them. Under the 1998 Act all public bodies are required to introduce a policy and process similar to this one, and as such you might refer to their policy to see if it provides guidance and advice on how you might best proceed. In the event that is does not, you might then proceed in accordance with Appendix A or Section 6 of this policy as you consider appropriate. Advice and Guidance on how matters of concern may be pursued can be obtained from: Your line manager Human Resource Department Internal Audit All of us at one time or another have concerns about what is happening at work. Usually these concerns are easily resolved. However, when they are about areas such as:- Unlawful conduct Dangers to the public or the environment Delivery of care to a service user Health and Safety Concerns are better raised in writing. You are invited to set out the background and history of your concern, giving names, dates and places where possible, and the reason why you are particularly concerned ab...
How to Raise a Concern. 4.1 As a first step, you should normally raise concerns with your immediate manager or their superior. This depends, however, on the seriousness and sensitivity of the issues involved and who you think may be involved in the malpractice. For example, if you believe that your line manager or another senior manager is involved, you should approach your Head of Service or, if you feel they may be involved, your Executive Director. The guiding rule is you should address your complaint to a level of management who you believe has no possible involvement.
4.2 Advice and guidance on how matters of concern may be pursued can be obtained from: your line manager; personnel section; internal audit; the monitoring officer.
4.3 Concerns are better raised in writing. You are invited to set out the background and history of your concern, giving names, dates and places, where possible, and the reason why you are particularly concerned about the situation. If you are not able to put your concern in writing, you can telephone or arrange to meet the appropriate officer.
4.4 Internal Audit operate an anti-fraud telephone hotline which can be used to report matters of fraud, theft or corruption, the number is 273 6060.
4.5 For concerns other than fraud, theft or corruption you may choose to telephone your Directorate’s Whistleblowing Hotline (see Appendix 2). You can also report your concern to the Monitoring Officer. The Monitoring Officer is Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Assistant Chief Executive, telephone 000 0000.
4.6 You may ask your trade union representative to raise the matter on your behalf.
4.7 Any officer receiving any concern will also report it to the Monitoring Officer. This is because the Monitoring Officer has a statutory duty to consider any issue that has, or may, result in the Council being in contravention of the law or a code of practice.
4.8 The earlier you express your concern, the easier it is for the Council to take action.
4.9 Although you are not expected to prove the truth of an allegation, you will need to demonstrate to the person contacted that there are sufficient grounds for initial enquiries to be made.
