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
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”.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
