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Privacy notice for Corporate Anti-Fraud.
The Council’s corporate anti-fraud team (CAFT) investigates a broad range of potential issues including:
Please complete the online referral form with as much detail as you have available.
You can refer is anonymously and any information you provide will stay confidential. We may need to work with other agencies to investigate and not all referrals lead to an investigation.
The DWP have taken over responsibility for investigating Housing Benefit fraud, and if your referral relates to or has elements of this, you will need to contact the DWP National Benefit Fraud Helpline by the following methods:
Helpline: 0800 854 4400 (textphone 0800 320 0512)
Website: GOV.UK Report Benefit Fraud
Post: NBFH, PO Box 224, Preston, PR1 1GP
Gemma Young
Assistant Director Internal Audit and Anti-Fraud Shared Service
Telephone: 020 8496 4620
Email: Gemma.young@walthamforest.gov.uk
Kevin Campbell-Scott
Deputy Head of Internal Audit and Anti-Fraud
Telephone: 020 8496 4487
Email: Kevin.campbell-scott@walthamforest.gov.uk
Jamie Branch
Corporate Anti-Fraud Manager
Telephone: 020 8496 4860
Email: jamie.branch@walthamforest.gov.uk
The Corporate Anti-Fraud Team are required legally under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) to ensure that a transcript of interviews conducted with suspects under caution is kept securely and cannot be tampered with in any way.
The Council records video and audio of interviews in line with the PACE Revised Code of Practice on audio recording interviews with suspects and the Revised Code of Practice on visual recording with sound of interviews with suspects.
The personal information we have collected during the course of the investigation interview will be used to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct.
Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and your data protection rights, can be found on our website: how to report fraud.
For further information on data matching at this authority contact Kevin Campbell-Scott on 020 8496 4487 or email kevin.campbell-scott@walthamforest.gov.uk
The CAFT team may collect a wide variety of information from a range of sources, including, but not limited to:
The Corporate Anti-Fraud Team uses personal information we have collected from you to detect and prevent fraud, error, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct.
The CAFT team will only process personal information that is appropriate and proportionate to enable us to carry out the Council’s public task. This is in accordance with legal obligations under the following legislation:
We have a statutory obligation to collect, process and share personal or sensitive personal information without consent, with our partners such as the NHS, housing associations, schools, central government, such as DWP, HMRC, Home Office, Department Of Education, Department of Health, other councils and law enforcement agencies such as the Police and the Crown prosecution service, for the following purposes:
We may also share your information with our partners to deliver national government programmes and initiatives. We may share with:
In most cases, this will be done where there is a lawful basis under the conditions set out in the Data Protection Legislation.
We review our retention periods of the information we hold about you on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as it is necessary for the relevant activity or service that we provide to you, or as required by law.
Interview transcripts will be retained for a period that is proportionate to the investigation outcome. For example, if the case is closed with no further action then the transcript will be destroyed 1 year after the closure date. If the suspect is given a sanction such as being prosecuted then we legally have to retain all information relating to the investigation for 7 years.
Our Data Protection Officer is Heid Balci. You can contact her at Data.Protection@walthamforest.gov.uk.
Please see the relevant section of the Corporate Privacy Notice.
Please see the relevant section of the Corporate Privacy Notice.
Please see the relevant section of the Corporate Privacy Notice.
If we’re unable to resolve your complaint to your satisfaction, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).