Georgina Halford-Hall
 Georgina Halford-Hall      (whistleblower) | |
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| Born | July 1963 |
| Nationality | UK |
| Spouse | Michael Halford-Hall |
| Member of | Transparency Task Force |
| Interests | whistleblowers |
Director of WhistleblowersUK, which later had strong allegations of misconduct. | |
Georgina Pamela Anne Halford-Hall is a director of WhistleblowersUK and Director of Strategy & Policy for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Whistleblowing.
Arrest
Georgina Halford-Hall was arrested in June 2014 after blowing the whistle about her son's school.[1] Eventually vindicated when investigations were concluded, "what Georgina learnt was that people who have the courage to whistle-blow are very isolated and unsupported."[2]
Controversy
Georgina Halford-Hall became a director of WhistleblowersUK on 8 April 2015, the same day as Tom Lloyd. Georgina set up WhistleblowersUK "after blowing the whistle on financial irregularities and poor practice in a charity." [2] The predecessor NGO, Whistleblowers UK, was dissolved the same month and the new company calling itself WhistleblowersUK (i.e. same name but without a space), was formed.
The original organisation imploded due to differences of opinion between its constituent members, one of whom claimed: "She is not a whistleblower and seems to know very little about the subject. However, this has not preventing her from positioning herself as the secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Whistleblowing, and fronting a campaign for an “Office for the Whistleblower”."[3] Another former associate, Eileen Chubb, claimed "that only those cases with monetary value are being cherry picked."[4]
References
- ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11702655/My-fear-of-jail-for-being-a-whistle-blower.html
- ↑ a b https://www.wbuk.org/our-people
- ↑ https://corruptionuk.org/the-naked-truth-about-the-organisation-whistleblowers-uk-guest-blog/
- ↑ https://compassionincare.com/sites/default/files/The%20Misconduct%20of%20WBUK.pdf
