ANNUAL INTERNAL AUDIT FRAUD & INVESTIGATION REPORT
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Report CEO 1407
This report was written by Luis Remedios, Head of Audit.
This was the fourth annual fraud report that summarised all fraud and investigations undertaken for 2013/14.The report informed Members of all the fraud and investigation activity for 2013/14. It summarised all the allegations of fraud that had been received, investigations of matters not fraud related but breach of financial regulations/procedures, results of the housing benefit partnership with the Royal Borough of Greenwich and findings from the National Fraud Initiative (NFI) data matching exercise. The report also referenced other matters such as trends in fraudulent activity, training staff in fraud awareness, proactive exercises in council tax, addressing key fraud risks, the fraud training toolkit for staff and future arrangements for the investigation of benefit fraud.
RESOLVED that the contents of the Annual Internal Audit Fraud and Investigation Report be noted.