Focus On
Fraud Awareness
Fraud is now the most commonly experienced crime in the UK and costs the UK many billions of pounds every year.
Source: National Crime Agency 2022
Fraud is now the most commonly experienced crime in the UK and costs the UK many billions of pounds every year.
Source: National Crime Agency 2022
Meritec has an unrivalled track record of designing and delivering cost effective digital learning solutions to the public and private sectors. Focus on Fraud Awareness enables organisations to reduce losses from fraud, improve their use of resources and protect against a damaged reputation. Meritec has developed separate versions of the product to meet the specific needs of local authorities, schools and colleges, housing associations and the private sector.
The latest version of the Meritec Digital Learning course contains up-to-date information on how fraud (in all its guises) can negatively impact on an organisation’s performance, finances and reputation. The course delivers a broad and consistent level of understanding of fraud in just 45 minutes.
The course, which was developed in conjunction with local councils, has been subsequently successfully rolled out to all staff within a number of different local authorities, as well as across catchment schools within some areas. Several industry-specific versions of the course have been created including a version specifically for the Social Housing sector.
• Reduce the losses from fraud: timely fraud referrals can save organisations £000s in financial losses and minimise the costs of a damaged reputation.
• Minimise training costs: eLearning facilities enable timely delivery of quality learning to large numbers of individuals.
• Improve the use of resources: staff fulfil their training needs at a pace that suits them, allowing specialist counter fraud staff to focus on fraud detection and investigations.
Tailored content for individual organisation
Up-to-date, interactive content to aid learner understanding
24/7 access from anywhere, anytime on any device
Easy to set up, roll out and monitor
Dashboard of learner usage and feedback
Meritec’s proven Focus on Fraud Awareness product is successfully delivering quality learning to 100,000s of employees in the UK public and private sectors. Separate Editions of the product are available to meet the specific needs of local authorities, housing associations, schools, academies and colleges, and private sector organisations.
Delivering broad and consistent awareness on fraud and corruption for all staff, including information on how to spot such crimes and how staff should respond if they suspect it.
Cost effective awareness for staff on specific types of fraud and corruption that impact on schools, academies and colleges.
We have developed a Focus on Fraud Awareness course specifically for Housing Associations targeting awareness around acts of Tenancy Fraud and Corporate Fraud too.
Effective awareness training for staff in SMEs and larger organisations to enable reductions in losses from fraud and corruption.
“Meritecs Fraud Awareness digital learning package has proved to be very well received by the staff and members at Wealden District Council. We are looking now to see an increase in fraud referrals and challenges within the more vulnerable areas of the council. I highly recommend Meritec and the support they provided in the delivery of this package.”
John Stalley ACFS, CFRM, Investigations Manager: Wealden District Council
“Focus on Fraud Awareness for Schools has helped us provide greater awareness of how to detect and prevent fraud or corruption to those working within a School environment. Feedback from Schools has been overwhelming with positive comments including ‘very clear, well laid out course’ and ‘very useful for all school staff and headteachers and governors too’. Participants found the learning provided a good level of detail on the warning signs of fraud and supporting internal controls. The case studies were found to be useful and relevant to the environment with the exercises helping to check and confirm understanding.”
Craig Price, Principal Group Auditor: Birmingham Audit, Council Management