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19 Aug 15
As austerity has pushed down on public services, a plethora of risks and uncertainties have popped up in response. A recent Public Finance roundtable debated the issues at stake
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13 Aug 15
Former local government secretary Sir Eric Pickles has launched a government investigation into electoral fraud in Britain in order to tackle what he called “modern-day rotten boroughs”.
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15 Jul 15
CIPFA’s Counter Fraud Centre has launched a whistleblowing course to support public sector staff in efforts to tackle fraud and misconduct at work.
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10 Jul 15
Counter-fraud professionals can for the first time join a chartered institute after CIPFA announced that its membership would be extended to include accredited counter-fraud practitioners.
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16 Jun 15
There have always been fraudsters who targeted the public sector at every level. Today, digitisation of public services is increasing the opportunities for criminals. And counter fraud experts...
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5 May 15
When it comes to countering fraud and other harmful, high-risk behaviours, such as corruption, money laundering, asset misappropriation and cyber-crime, organisations need to ensure their staff have...
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1 May 15
The first cohort of trainees has completed CIPFA’s Counter Fraud Specialist qualification.
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26 Feb 15
CIPFA’s Counter Fraud Centre is to work with BAE Systems to compile its global risk register and develop new ways for public bodies to detect cases of fraud.
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26 Jan 15
Councils could save up to £10bn by the end of the decade through smarter and more collaborative use of technology and data, the Policy Exchange think-tank has claimed.
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14 Jan 15
Whitehall incentives for local authorities to tackle Housing Benefit fraud and error are weak and being compounded by cuts in funding available to councils to administer it, the Public Accounts...
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28 Nov 14
The Department for Communities and Local Government has announced some of the successful bidders from its £16m counter-fraud fund.
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11 Nov 14
CIPFA is to launch a Global Fraud Risk Register to help public sectors across the world improve efforts to tackle fraud threats, and to identify and react to emerging problems.
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22 Oct 14
English councils’ fraud detection rate is the highest in 25 years, according to the Audit Commission.
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21 Oct 14
CIPFA has launched a new code of practice on counter-fraud to support good practice in public sector governance.
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3 Sep 14
Fraud risks are becoming more challenging and complex yet much of the counter-fraud architecture has disappeared. Vivienne Russell reports on a CIPFA initiative to bridge the gap.
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18 Jul 14
CIPFA has launched a new national Counter Fraud Centre to lead and co-ordinate the fight against fraud and corruption across the public sector.
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2 Jul 14
A £16m fund to help councils tackle fraud has been launched by Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles at today’s CIPFA annual conference.
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11 Jun 14
The Audit Commission’s National Fraud Initiative uncovered £229m of incorrect and dishonestly obtained payments across the UK public sector in the last two years, according to figures published today...