Refreshed and updated resources and guidance

The Commonwealth Fraud Prevention Centre continues to develop tools, resources and guidance to help officials prevent fraud and strengthen counter-fraud arrangements across the Australian Government.

As part of this commitment, we have re-released multiple Centre publications following a comprehensive refresh program. We updated 13 publications to align with the Commonwealth Fraud and Corruption Control Framework and incorporate references to new and updated better practice guidance.

These resources provide practical guidance to help government entities of all sizes and levels of counter-fraud maturity respond to an increasingly complex counter-fraud landscape.

Resources with extensive updates

We made extensive updates to the following 5 publications.

Suitability Assessment Toolkit

This toolkit helps government entities conduct assessments on the suitability of:

  • candidates for roles
  • suppliers and third parties for service provision or contracts.

We have updated the toolkit with references to new tools and open-source data you can use to inform suitability assessments.

Counter Fraud Investment Cases Leading Practice Guide

This guide can help you build a convincing counter-fraud narrative and case for greater investment in counter-fraud activities. It now explains how to integrate fraud loss and savings estimates into fraud narratives.

Cost of Living Measures Counter Fraud Toolkit

This toolkit outlines how best to integrate fraud and corruption controls into policy measures targeting the cost of living. The refreshed version offers government entities a revised suite of controls in this vital area of policy focus.

Sharing Data, Information and Intelligence Counter Fraud Toolkit

This toolkit details the barriers and opportunities when sharing data, information and intelligence for the purposes of combatting fraud. We have substantially redesigned it to provide greater clarity and more up-to-date guidance.

Fraud Messaging Toolkit

This toolkit helps you communicate your entity's fraud control efforts to stakeholders and the general public. It has new and revised details on messaging strategies, including dealing with scammers seeking to exploit your messaging.

Resources with minor updates

In addition, 8 publications received minor updates incorporating additional references to corruption controls, updated hyperlinks and supporting references. These include:

We encourage you to explore these refreshed publications to enhance your counter-fraud efforts.

A full list of all available Centre publications has been collated into a new Product Catalogue, which you can use as a guide to all of our resources and tools.