If you decide to blow the whistle to a prescribed person rather than your employer, you must make sure that you’ve chosen the correct person or body for your issue.
This document is a list of the prescribed persons and bodies who you can make a disclosure to. There is also a brief description about the matters you can report to each prescribed person.
The contact details have been updated for the 'Natural Resources Wales' team. Their website has also been updated to the 'Natural Resources Wales / Raising a serious concern in the public interest' site.
23 August 2024
Updates to contact information for: Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland, HMRC, Single Source Regulations Office, Food Standards Agency, Older People’s Commissioner, General Chiropractic Council, Scottish Housing Regulator, Welsh Ministers Housing Regulation Team, Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, The Welsh Revenue Authority. Update to phoneline hours for NSPCC. Update to remit of NHS England.
16 May 2024
Civil Aviation Authority phone number updated.
29 December 2023
Email address for Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator updated to info@oscr.org.uk.
17 October 2023
A new bullet point was added to NHS England, and contact details for Health Education England were removed.
19 July 2023
The titles of the Secretary of States have been updated following the machinery of government changes. An incorrect duplication 'Health and Safety' entry under 'cyber' has been removed. The list of reasons to contact the 'Health and Safety executive' has been updated.
14 April 2023
Entry added under food standards for the National Food Crime Unit (NFCU).
31 March 2023
New section on Cyber added.
30 November 2022
Updated list of prescribed people and bodies.
26 September 2022
Change of email address for The Pensions Regulator.
27 October 2021
General contact details updated for a number of organisations.
10 August 2021
Updated the address for the Children’s Commissioner for Wales.
13 February 2020
Updated name, purpose and website for NHS Counter Fraud Authority (previously NHS Protect).
5 November 2019
Added the Equality and Human Rights Commission, The European Securities and Markets Authority and the Regulator of Social Housing, removed the Homes and Communities Agency and updated the details of the Care Inspectorate, the Financial Conduct Authority, Healthcare Inspectorate Wales and The Lord Advocate, Scotland.
21 May 2019
Contact details updated for: Bank of England, National Guardian's Office, Children's Commissioner, Food Standards Agency, Health & Care Professions Council, IOPC, Prudential Regulation Authority, Qualifications Wales, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Scottish Social Services Council. Welsh Revenue Authority added.
16 April 2019
Contact details for following bodies have changed: Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People, General Chiropractic Council, Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) (previously IPCC)
21 March 2019
Change of address for Payment Systems Regulator and the Financial Conduct Authority.
2 October 2018
Change of address for Ofgem.
1 August 2018
We have updated the list to change the matters you can report to the following bodies: the Bank of England, Financial Reporting Council, General Pharmaceutical Council, the Secretary of State for Transport, and the Auditor General for Scotland.
1 October 2017
Social Care Wales added to list.
24 November 2016
The following bodies were added to the list: Wales Audit Office (Business, finance or fraud); Qualifications Wales (Education); Food Standards Scotland (Food standards); Office of Rail and Road (Health and safety); National Guardian's Office (Healthcare); Local government commissioners (Local authorities); and Older People's Commissioner Wales (Social care).
1 February 2016
Updated list of prescribed people and bodies.
1 June 2015
Updated to amend some administrative changes and summarise the existing Order.
16 February 2015
Ofqual's email address in publication BIS/15/43 updated.
28 January 2015
Reason for 27 Jan update: Revenue Scotland and Registers of Scotland added following their inclusion on 2014 Order, 1 Jan 2015