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With a new year comes a fresh start, and the Centre has certainly started 2021 with a bang! Check out our quarter 1 achievements.

Explore the latest quarterly newsletter from the Commonwealth Fraud Prevention Centre.

Our fourth newsletter celebrates the end of 2020 - our year of delivery - and what a year it has been.

Find out what we have achieved throughout 2020 and our plan for the first half of 2021. Learn about new tools now available to support your counter fraud activities.

Discover how the UK Government has rapidly deployed new data pilots to combat fraud against COVID-19 support measures. Learn about advancements in Australia, including the release of the Centre’s new ‘Data Pilot Leading Practice Guidance’.

During International Fraud Awareness Week (15-20 November 2020), we ran five capability building webinars to help Commonwealth entities strengthen their counter fraud knowledge and expertise.

Between January and June 2021, we are running tailored counter fraud narrative workshops to help individual Commonwealth entities craft their counter fraud narrative.

International Fraud Awareness Week is dedicated to raising awareness of fraud and working towards reducing its impacts. We are hosting a series of counter fraud talks for Australian Commonwealth officials.

Between November 2019 and March 2020, the Centre conducted the Fraud Capability Baseline Assessment Project to capture statistics on counter fraud capability across 19 Commonwealth programs and functions. The assessments also helped participants to understand more about their fraud risks and opportunities for capability building.

Read some interesting articles and learn about the Centre's achievements this quarter.