“Nil by Mouth”
The truth about pharmaceutical and
food fraud
Thursday 24 November 2011
at Mishcon de Reya,
Summit House, 12 Red Lion Square,
London, WC1R 4QD
Please click here
for further details
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Stella Walsh Award - Excellence in the fight against fraud |
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Fraud Women’s Network article in Professional Security Magazine |
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The Eve Appeal
The Fraud Women’s Network is delighted to be supporting – and be supported by – The Eve Appeal, the charity for gynaecological cancers.
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The National Fraud Authority (NFA) has released the UK's first comprehensive fraud indicator which estimates that fraud costs the UK over £30 billion a year. The figure is published in the National Fraud Authority Annual Fraud Indicator.
The new £30 billion national fraud estimate is far more comprehensive than the last widely accepted figure of £13 billion from the ACPO (Levi) report The Nature, Extent and Economic Impact of Fraud in the UK 2007. That figure captured only a proportion of the true fraud loss, as it only referenced publicly available information. The new higher figure is the result of the NFA collating previously unpublished fraud loss figures, and producing its own fraud estimates in areas where fraud data was unavailable.
The report and overall fraud loss estimate will enable the NFA and Government to develop clearer priorities to prevent, detect and deter fraudsters and identify those areas of fraud that cause the most harm to the UK economy, in order to tackle it more effectively.
The culture of British business, however, has a tendency to inhibit proper fraud prevention. There is therefore a need to promote fraud awareness and successful fraud prevention strategies across both public and private sectors by creating a culture of transparency, with better flows of information and open discussion, resulting in a more widespread understanding and better sharing of ideas.
Fraud occurs in both the public and private sectors and will increase unless we combine forces to do something about it.
Any woman who works in the anti-fraud arena will know that it can sometimes be a rather male environment, in which there are few senior female executives. The Fraud Women’s Network (“FWN”) has therefore been set up to bring together women involved in all aspects of fraud prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution, to network and to share best practice, information and experience in order to help tackle the threat from fraud and organised crime head on.
We aim to provide women in the anti-fraud business with:
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networking opportunities. Our regular networking events provide an invaluable way of establishing and cementing contacts across the whole anti-fraud arena, with whom to share information and ideas (we also enjoy the social aspect!); |
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access to a wide-ranging education programme about the latest trends and developments in fraud and organised crime, and the newest tools to help prevent, detect and investigate fraud; |
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mentoring opportunities. Many of the members of the Fraud Women’s Network are senior within their organisations and have a great deal of knowledge, experience and advice that they can impart, as well as encouraging junior women to progress in their careers; |
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access to the members and activities of the regional Fraud Forums, all part of the National Federation of Fraud Forums; click here for more information. |
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