Making speaking up business as usual: National Guardian's Office annual report 2022

Making speaking up business as usual: National Guardian's Office annual report 2022 The report shares intelligence and learning collated by the National Guardian’s Office, including speaking up data shared by Freedom to Speak Up guardians of the cases they receive. Over 20,000 cases have been brought to them last year, remaining at the record level set in 2020/21 (20,362, compared with 20,388 in 2020/21).  Freedom to Speak Up guardians have handled over 75,000 cases since the National Guardian’s Office first started collecting data in 2017.

The report also features case studies from across England and different healthcare providers, sharing the experiences of people who have spoken up and the difference Freedom to Speak Up guardians are making. In the words of one group of workers, “It finally felt that we were being listened to and our opinions and thoughts mattered.”