Barclays ESG Investor Presentation 2021
Environment
Social
Financing
Governance
Barclays is committed to having a strong 'speak up' culture
Our Mindset encourages colleagues to challenge actions, decisions or behaviours that they believe to be wrong
Board Level "Whistleblowers' Champions¹" are responsible for ensuring and overseeing the integrity, independence and
effectiveness of Barclays' whistleblowing programme
Colleagues
Colleagues are encouraged to speak up and raise concerns to their
management, Compliance, HR or Legal. If they do not feel comfortable
using these avenues, they can contact the Raising Concerns team
Whistleblowing cases opened in 2021: 134
32
Retaliation
First point of contact
Raising Concerns Team
Breach of controls,
26
Line manager
Compliance
Legal
Receive, assess and refer
concerns to the most
appropriate team for review
and possible investigation
process or other
23
Breach of policy
HR
19
COVID-19
34
Other
Whistleblowing Team
Dedicated team within
Compliance, where concerns
assessed as whistleblowing
are directed
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In 2021, the whistleblowing team opened a total of 134
whistleblowing concerns
205 whistleblowing matters were closed in 2021, of which 19% were
found to have some level of substantiation. None of the Retaliation
concerns closed in 2021 were substantiated
1 Chair of the Group Board Audit Committee and Chair of the BUK Board Audit Committee |
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