Protect (Charity)

Protect

Formation	1 October 1993;31 years ago (1993-10-01)
Type	Not-for-profit, Whistleblowing
Legal status	Charity, Company Limited by Guarantee
Purpose	Advocating for whistleblowers at work and advising individuals with concerns at work
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Region served	United Kingdom
Membership	50,000
Official language	English
Chief Executive	Elizabeth Gardiner
Website	protect-advice.org.uk
Formerly called	Public Concern at Work

Protect formerly Public Concern at Work (PCaW) is a whistleblowing charity operating in the United Kingdom. Established in 1993, Protect advises individuals with whistleblowing concerns at work, supports organisations with their whistleblowing arrangements and informs public policy and seeks legislative change. ^[1]

The free legal whistleblowing advice line operated by Protect is: 020 3117 2520.

History

Protect, formerly Public Concern at Work, changed its name in September 2018 to better reflect the work it does supporting whistleblowers and organisations. Protect seeks to promote the public interest by ensuring concerns about wrongdoing, risk, and malpractice are properly raised and addressed in the workplace. Protect also campaigns for legal reform.

In 2023 the organisation celebrated its 30th anniversary, having advised over 50,000 individuals.

Publications

Reports

• Environmental Whistleblowing Toolkit, October 2023
• Blowing The Whistle in Schools, June 2023
• Workplace Whistleblowing: Why we need a legal duty on employers, 2011
• The Best Warning System: Whistleblowing during covid-19, 2020
• Silence in The City 2, 2020
• Time to Transform: A third sector pilot, 2020
• The UK Whistleblowing Report, October 2014
• The report of the Whistleblowing Commission on the effectiveness of existing arrangements for workplace whistleblowing in the UK, November 2013
• Whistleblowing: The Inside Story, May 2013
• Whistleblowing: Beyond the law, October 2011
• Where's whistleblowing now? Ten years of legal protection for whistleblowers, March 2010

See also

• Government Accountability Project, an American equivalent
• Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform, a Canadian equivalent

References

1. Protect, Protect campaign calls on civil society to help fix the UK’s whistleblowing law, accessed 8 July 2022

External links

• Official Website | Public Concern at Work
• Whistleblowing International Network, the international whistleblowing network of NGOs working to support and protect workplace whistleblowing around the world