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Protecting the Public Purse: Fighting Fraud Against Local Authorities - Jonathan Collins & Fiona James & Denise Brosnan & Arun Chauhan, DWF

22/03/15. The team examines the recently published report by the Audit Commission “Protecting the Public Purse 2014: fighting fraud against local government” and draw out the key issues and recommendations for local authorities.

Quantifying the scale of fraud

The Audit Commission has revealed a ten-fold increase in fraud detection since 1990, in its recent report, “Protecting the public purse 2014: Fighting fraud against local government”. Fraud valued at £188 million was detected by England’s councils in 2013/14 and represents a 25 year high. Over the last couple of years, the number of detected cases of non-benefit fraud has fallen 4% to just over 57,400 albeit with the value of this fraud rising by 2% to £59 million...

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