The person
The person it concerns
For most of an enquiry they are working normally and unaware. The asymmetry is sometimes necessary and never neutral.
The Subject Who Does Not Know
For most of an enquiry, the person it concerns is working normally and unaware. What that period is, and what is owed during it.
Telling Them, and When
The moment the subject learns an enquiry exists shapes everything after it. What to say, what not to, and who should be in the room.
The Interview
The one part of the process where the subject can affect the outcome. Conducting it as an enquiry rather than a confrontation produces better evidence and fairer results.
Representation and Support
Who the subject may bring, what that person can do, and the support arrangements that should exist whether or not anybody asks for them.
Suspension and Access Removal
The most serious thing done to somebody before any finding, applied routinely, and frequently without the assessment it requires.
What This Does to Somebody
The effects are predictable, substantial, and largely independent of whether the person did anything. Knowing them is part of running the process properly.
Welfare, and the Case Nobody Plans For
Occasionally somebody under investigation becomes seriously unwell. The arrangements for that should exist before they are needed, and usually do not.