Hundreds of millions | Counting the taxpayer cost of whistleblowing failures

Ignoring whistleblowers in the Post Office and other recent UK scandals has cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds.

New research reveals the financial impact to the taxpayer of failing to listen to whistleblowers. The Post Office Horizon scandal, the Countess of Chester/Lucy Letby scandal and the collapse of the construction firm Carillion alone have so far cost the taxpayer 426 million pounds.

In the first analysis of this kind, the whistleblowing charity Protect has analysed three major scandals of recent years in which a lack of accountability and a failure to listen to whistleblowers have been officially acknowledged. It found that failing to act when whistleblowers spoke up cost the government (at a conservative estimate):

• £178m in the Post Office IT Horizon scandal

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