SPEAK UP NOW UK
Speak Up Now is a safe place for anyone in Public Services/Emergency Services to share their story if they have been affected by the following:
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Discrimination, Sexism and Racism by other employees/management
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Faced hardship when trying to report wrongdoing within their workplace
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Witnessed any of the above and feel their workplace do not provide a safe place to report
Our MISSION is to provide a platform where people can share their stories so that we can provide transparency on what is actually going on in our public services and also to enable a sense of relief and support to anyone going through discrimination etc at their workplace and feel that it has not been properly dealt with correctly.
Whether you serve in the Police or the Ambulance service, Courts or Social Care, and you would like to share your experiences, please submit below. Submissions will be anonymous apart from the name of your workplace.
Remember, we only know what we are told. I think it's time that we take that back and start spotlighting failures in our public services because after all, they are here to serve the public. You can only be accountable for information that is out there, and if you are employed by these organisations most of the time you can not speak out because somewhere in their policies it will say you will be penalised for putting the company into "disrepute". So, let's get everything out there and start holding organisations and forces properly to account and expose the crisis that is going on right now in the integrity and professionalism of our public services.
**We sometimes receives submissions that we cannot share because they are not in line with our Submission Policy. Please read before submitting. You can find it at the bottom of this page. Thank you.
Metropolitan Police
"I worked for the met until 2019 and was bullied because of my disability to the point I wanted to take my own life. It was all put down to banter by Senior officers and I was eventually medically retired"
West Midlands Police
"They demonstrated a serious breach of their duty of care towards me as an employee with a disability. My attempts to address this through my supervision were met with further disregard for my medical needs and a failure to ensure fair treatment. A particularly egregious act was a supervisor's falsification of records. The struggle to obtain equitable treatment culminated in formal legal action at tribunal resulting in a financial pay-out of several thousand pounds, reflecting the gravity of the discrimination I was subjected to."
Submit Your Story
Submission Policy
All submissions to the Speak Up Now UK website are manually read by a team member. Only submissions that refer to personal, first hand experiences of discrimination/workplace issues are posted.
If the submission is a second hand account eg. if submitted by a friend or a family member, please seek consent first before submitting.
We want to share with you that some submissions that are emotional outpours, rude/offensive submissions, or personal communications with Speak Up Now UK or Issy Vine are not posted.