We went out into Manchester to ask people on the street about whether they would go to the news or the police if they witnessed immoral behaviour at work.
00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World. My name is Theo Hewson Betts and today I'm out on the streets of Manchester
00:04asking people about whistleblowing. Now for those unfamiliar with the term, this is the idea that if your place of employment is doing something wrong
00:10you'll go to either the police or the news to tell people that they're doing something wrong.
00:14We want to know if this is something people would be willing to do or whether they'd be afraid of the potential consequences.
00:19Probably just keeping it down.
00:21It definitely depends on the scenario. If it's criminal and yeah obviously you've got to report it.
00:29Yeah I do. I mean I work in a school and my role is safeguarding. So if I see something going on that isn't right then you have to speak up and say something
00:38because there's certain people as well that don't feel probably that they can speak up to themselves.
00:42So I think if you can on someone's behalf I think it's important. And if somebody's doing something that they shouldn't be doing
00:48then it's right that they're sort of picked up on it really.
00:52You feel like you're going to, like, you're at risk of losing your job because of it.
00:55I own, yeah, that's why HR is at the airport. Hopefully you're the magic.
