We are committed to supporting a safe and appropriate environment for raising concerns about potential wrongdoing or irregularities, including in relation to financial reporting and other workplace matters.

We provide support and assurance to staff who raise genuine concerns.

The Protected Disclosures Act 2014, as amended by the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act 2022, requires public bodies to set up and maintain procedures for dealing with protected disclosures.

We approved a new Protected Disclosures policy in 2024, which applies to staff and volunteers in service delivery companies.

Protected Disclosures reporting:

• 2022: The Citizens Information Board received three reports that were described as protected disclosures in the course of 2022. Following assessment, two of these reports were not treated as protected disclosures. The third report was also addressed to one of CIB's funded companies and CIB requested that funded company to follow up on the report in the first instance.
• 2023: No reports were made.
• 2024: No reports were made.