Focus on Fraud Awareness

How much is fraud impacting your organisation on an annual basis? And are your staff best prepared to deal with it? Focus on Fraud Awareness provides organisations with the opportunity to quickly raise the awareness of ALL employees on the risks of fraud and how these can be mitigated.

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How much is fraud costing your organisation every year?

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.

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60 %

SMEs experienced fraud in the last 12 months

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40 %

of organisations had experienced an increase in fraudulent attempts

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137

£137 billion is the cost of fraud to UK taxpayers every year

Focus on Fraud Awareness

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.

Fraud Awareness

Increasing awareness increases your protection

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.

Benefits

• 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.


Features

• Customised content for individual organisations

• Interactive features to aid learner understanding

• 24x7x365 access via PC, laptop, mobile or tablet

• Management dashboard with learner usage and feedback

• SCORM compliance for secure hosting by Meritec or on-premise

• Optional mobile app for harder to-reach learners.

Who we help

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.

Local Authorities Edition

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.

Housing Edition

We have developed a Focus on Fraud Awareness course specifically for Housing Associations targeting awareness around acts of Tenancy Fraud and Corporate Fraud too.

Schools Edition

Cost effective awareness for staff on specific types of fraud and corruption that impact on schools, academies and colleges.

Private Sector Edition

Effective awareness training for staff in SMEs and larger organisations to enable reductions in losses from fraud and corruption.

Our Courses

Addressing the issues that matter

We’re continually developing our 'Focus on' courses, updating existing content and adding new material to address important issues and help you raise awareness quickly, easily and cost-effectively.

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Mental Wellbeing

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Cyber Security

Cybercrime Awareness

Cyber Security is of growing critical importance to individuals and organisations of all sizes as cyber-criminals attempt to exploit weaknesses in order to access valuable data.

Equality & Diversity

All employees in an organisation need to have a clear and consistent understanding of equality and diversity and how an inclusive organisation can enable improvements to customer service and to productivity. Our digital learning course enables these requirements for all employees and can form a critical part of an organisation’s induction process.

Digital Application

Risk Management

All organisations have an objective and a responsibility to manage risks effectively. Staff awareness of risk management enables organisations to reconcile risks and rewards, take informed decisions about exploiting opportunities and have increased confidence in achieving their priorities.

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GDPR

All managers and their staff need to understand the organisation’s role under the GDPR legal framework and have awareness of their own day-to-day responsibilities for data protection. Digital learning provides the opportunity to provide a clear understanding of: Who is responsible for GDPR compliance? What are the risks and costs of non-compliance ? What types of data exist and how can the processing of data vary? What are people's rights and responsibilities?

Our customers

Want to hear more about how we can help your organisation reduce fraud?

Take the first step and arrange an initial chat or demo to explore how Meritec’s Focus On... Fraud Awareness can help to make all your employees aware of how to spot fraudulent activity.