Financial Corruption

Action Fraud

The UK's national fraud and internet crime reporting centre, providing a central point of contact for reporting fraud and financially motivated internet crime.

Contact Action Fraud

Financial Ombudsman Service

The UK’s official expert in sorting out problems with banking, insurance, PPI, loans, mortgages, pensions and other money and financial complaints. 

The Ombudsman is a service of last resort for those who have exhausted the internal complaints procedure of the financial institution that is the subject of a complaint.

Contact the Financial Ombudsman Service

International Corruption Unit

The International Corruption Unit (ICU) sits within the National Crime Agency and investigates international corruption and related money laundering offences. The ICU also traces and recovers the proceeds of international corruption.

Contact the ICU

Serious Fraud Office

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is a specialist prosecuting authority tackling the top level of serious or complex fraud, bribery and corruption. 

They are part of the UK criminal justice system covering England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but not Scotland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands. They take on a small number of large economic crime cases. 

Contact the SFO

Government Corruption

Commissioner for Public Appointments

The Commissioner for Public Appointments regulates the processes by which Ministers make appointments to the boards of national and regional public bodies. 

They also currently regulate appointments processes in relation to some bodies in Northern Ireland.

Contact the Commissioner for Public Appointments

Independent Complaints Reviewer

The Independent Complaints Reviewer (ICR) provides the independent complaints review service for the Land Registry. 

Contact the ICR

Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman looks at complaints about councils and some other authorities and organisations, including education admissions appeal panels and adult social care providers (such as care homes and home care providers).

Contact the Local Government Ombudsman

Northern Ireland Ombudsman

The Northern Ireland Ombudsman deals with complaints from people who believe they have suffered injustice as a result of poor administration or the wrong applications of rules by government departments and public bodies in Northern Ireland. 

Contact the Northern Ireland Ombudsman

Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman are the final stage for complaints about the NHS in England and public services delivered by the UK Government. 

Contact the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman

Scottish Public Services Ombudsman

The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) is the final stage for complaints about councils, the National Health Service, housing associations, colleges and universities, prisons, most water and sewerage providers, the Scottish Government and its agencies and departments and most Scottish authorities. 

Contact the SPSO

Housing Corruption

Housing Ombudsman

The Housing Ombudsman Service is set up by law to look at complaints about the housing organisations that are registered with them. 

They resolve disputes involving the tenants and leaseholders of social landlords and our voluntary members (private landlords and letting agents who are committed to good service for their tenants).

Contact the Housing Ombudsman

Legal Corruption

Legal Ombudsman

The Legal Ombudsman deals with service complaints between consumers and legal service providers including solicitors and barristers. 

Contact the Legal Ombudsman

Police Corruption

Independent Office for Police Conduct

The Independent Office for Police Conduct oversees the police complaints system in England and Wales and sets the standards by which the police should handle complaints. It is independent of the police and government.

Contact the Independent Office for Police Conduct

Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland

This Office provides an independent system for the handling of complaints about the conduct of police officers. They deal with those complaints in a manner which is free from any police, governmental or sectional community interest. 

Contact the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland

Scottish Police Investigations & Review Commissioner

The role of the Scottish Police and Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) is to undertake independent investigations into the most serious incidents involving the police and to provide independent scrutiny of the way police bodies are operating in Scotland and respond to complaints from the public

Contact PIRC

Whistleblowing

Protect

Protect is a whistleblowing charity that aims to protect society by encouraging workplace whistleblowing. 
As the leading authority in the field, they advise individuals with whistleblowing dilemmas at work and support organisations with their whistleblowing arrangements.

Contact Protect

The Guardian SecureDrop

The Guardian provide SecureDrop, a secure platform for whistleblowers to securely submit confidential documents to the newspaper’s reporters. 

The SecureDrop open-source whistleblowing platform provides a way for sources, who can choose to remain anonymous, to submit documents and data while avoiding virtually all of the most common forms of online tracking.

Contact SecureDrop