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Code of Practice on Managing the Risk of Fraud and Corruption: Guidance Notes

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This publication replaces CIPFA’s Managing the Risk of Fraud publication. The code and underpinning guidance notes contain good practice guidance that will help organisations improve the effectiveness of counter fraud arrangements.

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It's a Risky Business (2014 edition)

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Risk – and the consequences of not managing it – remains a high profile threat to the public sector. This publication provides practical guidance, using case studies and examples drawn across the sector, to meet the standards and to continue to make a valuable contribution to risk management.

Capital Strategies and Programming

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This publication demystifies the jargon around capital and asset planning and is written in a non-technical way that will appeal to a wide audience both in the UK and elsewhere. It points to best practice, based on real life examples and experience across the public sector.

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Welfare Reform and its Effect on Local Government

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This guide looks behind the bare text of welfare rules and regulations to the wider budget impacts. It is aimed at those who need to understand the financial impact of welfare reform on local government services, and operate housing benefit efficiently pending the arrival of universal credit.

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