Fraud: from national strategies to practice on the ground—a regional case study

Abstract

The intentions of a number of national strategies and other initiatives to address fraud are reviewed in the context of one UK region. This paper considers how far various agencies in that region have responded to fraud. It then discusses which factors appear to have influenced the role of the strategies and other initiatives as an anti-fraud framework or to deliver anti-fraud work.

Keywords:

• Fraud
• public sector
• strategies

Notes

* Formerly run by the Audit Commission and now housed in the Cabinet Office, the NFI is a datamatching exercise from both public and private sector sources, sent as ‘risk’ matches to public bodies to be reviewed as potential frauds, overpayments and errors in public expenditure.

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Notes on contributors

Alan Doig

Alan Doig is Visiting Professor, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK.