Fraud against local authority and public purse
Overview
It is estimated that fraud committed against the public sector each year costs the UK over £20 billion. This impacts everyone in society as this is money taken out of public purse and reduces Council’s resources.
It is vital fraud is prevented and detected so this money can be put back into services such as children and adult social care, or the levels of council tax that is set, and more resources available to our local communities.
In this section
Blue badge
Improper blue badge use
Recruitment and agency
Scams in staffing processes
Grant
Financial aid fraud
Business rates
Business property tax evasion
Benefit, council tax, and single person discount
Welfare and tax deception
Social Care
Abuse of social aid services
Housing
Social housing and tenancy fraud
Internal and council employee
Corrupt practices by internal employees
Procurement
Unauthorised activities in buying processes
Money laundering
Illegal cleaning of unlawfully obtained money
Bribery and corruption
Unlawful graft and abuse of position
National Fraud Initiative fair processing notice
Preventing and detecting fraud using data matching
Data protection privacy notice
Understanding of how data is kept secure
