The Guardian Service is supporting more organisations than ever before, and this has brought an increase in the number of cases recorded across the service. Much of the growth in our client base has come from primary care, which has significantly increased the overall number of organisations we support. However, many of these clients are newer to the service and currently have low case volumes so they do not yet provide enough data for detailed trend analysis at this stage. For that reason, this report focuses particularly on NHS trusts, where we have a more established and consistent data set and can draw more meaningful comparisons over time. As the dataset grows across other organisation types, we will be able to extend this analysis and share wider intelligence about speaking up across the full range of services we support.
The report looks beyond the headline numbers to explore patterns across different organisations and professional groups, what workers spoke up about, why they contacted a Guardian, what happened after contact and how respondents felt about the support they received.