Public Concern at Work (PCaW) has published the results of both its 2015 YouGov survey and research into the PCaW advice line. According to PCaW, the UK Whistleblowing Report, shows that when compared, these two studies show “the stark and widening gap between the way that whistleblowing is perceived and the reality for whistleblowers on the ground.”. The YouGov survey 2015 looked at ‘perception’ and found that 74% of workers see the term whistleblowing as either neutral or positive, 81% said that they would raise a concern about possible corruption, danger or serious malpractice at work and 48% said their workplace had a whistleblowing policy. However, the ‘reality’, measured by calls to the advice line, revealed that 80% of whistleblowers suffered some form of reprisal, 52% had their concerns rejected or ignored, but 33% reported a positive reaction in relation to the way the concern was handled.  

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