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Hamlets Training Centre is offering this Introduction to Fraud and Fraud Prevention Short Course which is designed to help your organisation understand the nature of fraud, how you may be vulnerable and its effects. It will give you the knowledge needed to reduce risk within your organisation and implement anti-fraud policies.

Fraud costs UK business up to £190 billion every year. Investing in prevention is cheaper than the consequences of being a victim of fraud. Learn the basics of fraud prevention with this online Short Course.

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Introduction to Fraud and Fraud Prevention

It’s estimated that the cost of fraud to UK businesses could be as high as £190 billion each year, with over 70 per cent of fraud occurring in the private sector and over 20 per cent in the public sector.

An increasing number of companies are experiencing fraud, or finding they need to invest more to prevent it. Ensuring your organisation understands the different types of fraud and how to prevent it is vital, and will help you protect your business and employees from the serious consequences fraud can result in.

The Course

The course forms part of a suite of short e-learning course that focus on different types of economic crime and is ideal for employees in busy workplaces who need to understand the issues around fraud.

Areas Covered

  • The definition of fraud
  • Different types of fraud
  • Legislation relevant to fraud
  • The consequences of fraud for individuals, businesses and organisations
  • The facts that explain how and why fraud occurs
  • Circumstances that increase the likelihood of fraud occurring
  • Fraud risk management
  • Creating a zero-tolerance culture
  • Anti-fraud policies
  • Preventing and detecting fraud
  • Fraud investigation

Who Is It Aimed At?

Any employee who may be in a position where fraud is a potential risk, as well as their managers. It can also be used as a stand-alone module by anyone interested in finding out more about economic crime and the legislative requirements placed on individuals and businesses to combat it.

Prerequisites

No prior knowledge needed.

Duration

20 to 40 minutes.

How It Works

Our e-learning is available to use on multiple platforms such as tablets, PCs and laptops. All you need is an internet connection. Learners simply log on to the Highfield Learner Management System (LMS) and work their way through the course, along with the scenarios that provide them with real-life context.

Learners are assessed at the end of the course by multiple-choice questions.

Certification

Learners will receive a Highfield e-learning completion certificate, which is downloadable upon successfully finishing the course.

Benefits of E-learning

The use of interactive quizzes and simulation tasks, based on realistic scenarios from genuine workplace environments, means E-Learners can more readily acquire skills and knowledge meaningful to their own work-based practices.

E-Learning can accommodate many different learning styles and can engage the learner via a range of rich and stimulating approaches, which are more relevant to the subject requirements, than can often be achieved in normal classroom-based learning.

Key elements of our e-learning courses are:

  • interactive exercises/gaming
  • media-rich content
  • interactive 3D scenarios
  • content provided by market leading experts
  • relevant photography and illustrations
  • multi-generational content and style

Why choose Hamlets e-learning?

Hamlets Training Centre is registered as an approved centre with Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance; a global leader in regulated and work-based learning qualifications. Highfield is regulated by Ofqual, Qualifications Wales, SQA Accreditation, the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA), and the Security Industry Authority (SIA).Highfield is also recognised by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) as an apprentice assessment organisation (AAO) and registered on the Register of Apprentice Assessment Organisations (RoAAO).

Hamlets Training Centre is a registered Training Centre based in London Borough of Tower Hamlets (Tower Hamlets Council). As a national training provider we are offering this online Introduction to Fraud and Fraud Prevention eLearning course to our partners and clients.

You can also contact us via this email info@hamlets.org.uk