The National AntiFraud Network NAFN

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The National Anti-Fraud Network NAFN

• Geoff Jennings
• Director

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Aims

• Tell you about NAFN update you on developments
• Provoke some thoughts discussion on fraud
• Encourage you to contact me for further
  information

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What is NAFN?

• NAFN is
• The largest shared service in the country
• Non-profit making shared service run by for
  its members which include
• 334 Local Authorities
• 5 Housing Associations
• 1 NHS PCT
• Managed by an elected Committee includes Peter
  Farrow
• All staff are LA employees

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NAFN Vision

• NAFN will be recognised by members and standard
  setters as a centre of excellence in
• Providing data and intelligence that supports
  Local Authorities in their protection of the
  public purse and
• Assisting members in their provision of effective
  corporate and financial governance.

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Who can use NAFN services?

• ALL teams
• Housing Benefit Fraud Teams
• Trading Standards
• Internal Audit
• Parking
• Debt recovery
• Procurement
• Housing
• Council Tax
• ETC!

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What do we do?

• 3 core services
• Data acquisition
• We specialise in legally obtaining data
• Includes all available open sources
• And from closed sources (where your powers
  permit)
• Intelligence
• Data sharing
• Analysis
• Processes systems
• Outputs products
• Sharing best practice
• Policies procedures
• Investigation Framework

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Benefits of using NAFN

• Legality
• Efficiency
• Effectiveness

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Legality

• Our processes
• comply with the law best practice
• We aim to achieve ISO accreditation in November
  2009
• Our staff are fully trained accredited
• Intelligence officers
• SSFA Authorised Officers
• SPoCs
• We remove the risk of inexpert staff breaching
  data protection

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Efficiency

• Our unit costs are below in-house costs
• We free up staff time to focus on core work
• On-line submission of requests via secure
  web-site
• 4 levels of security
• Penetration testing
• Strict Chinese walls
• Manager can authorise track all requests
• Quarterly recharging of Information Provider
  charges by team saves individual contracts
  administration charges

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Effectiveness

• NAFN works with
• Government Departments Agencies
• To develop national services
• Information Providers
• To improve availability of data
• Speed of response
• Standard setters
• On training, policies, procedures

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Service update developments

• Existing services quick review
• New services improving the VFM

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Existing services

• SSFA 2001 Act
• General (DPA)
• Credit Checks
• Passport Immigration
• DVLA
• Overnight return of Vehicle Keeper data
• Driving Licences
• Registry Office NAFN has unique access

• Land Registry
• Vehicle Finance
• Company/Director Info
• TV Licensing
• Sky TV
• EBay
• Sanctions Database

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New Services

• DVLA
• RIPA Telecommunications Service
• Foreign Vehicle Enforcement Service

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DVLA

• NAFN has been approved by the DVLA as the
  preferred route for enquiries
• We are jointly developing a strategy which will
  provide much more efficient effective data
  retrieval than could be achieved by individual
  members
• DVLA strategy is to link across EU
• NAFN will link members with that strategy

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RIPA SPoC Telecommunications Service

• Home Office IoCCO are actively supporting NAFN
  to develop a secure, central RIPA SPOC service
• Will retrieve telecommunications data
  electronically through on-line connections to
  information providers
• Centrally designed processes designed with IoCCO
• Hope to launch service at the end of this year

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NAFN Foreign Vehicle Enforcement Service

• Primarily for enforcement of traffic violations
• Trace recovery of penalty (no win, no fee)
• Negotiated rates (25 discount), Trial completed
  successfully
• National launch from May 2009
• Central service will provide intelligence on
• Repeat offenders
• Hot spots
• Country of origin
• Just agreed that service can be used where there
  is a criminal investigation

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FraudKey players

• National Fraud Strategic Authority
• National Fraud Reporting Centre
• SOCA
• CIPFA Red book training
• Audit Commission NFI
• NAFN
• Data Services
• Investigation Framework library of legislation,
  policies, forms, processes etc
• Intelligence/risk management systems

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How do we assess risk?

• Within teams?
• Insurance
• HB
• Internal
• Grant
• Blue badge
• Procurement
• Employee vetting
• Within organisations?
• Political
• Economic

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Recording analysis

• Ensure that data is able to be used
• Your data will be used to prevent fraud
• Common recording of risk types, classifications
• Common forms demographics
• IT systems enable data to be merged/compared/analy
  sed

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IntelligenceWhat is it?

• Analysis of data producing
• Strategic Risk Assessment
• Ranking risks for stakeholders
• Securing support for tactical response
• Securing managing resources
• Tactical response
• Publicity
• Penalties
• Resource allocation
• Targets/subjects open or closed

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Key points

• NAFN ensures that data is obtained legally,
  efficiently effectively
• We provide efficiency savings which outweigh the
  cost of membership
• We work with key partners to develop national
  services
• We will support you to develop effective data
  recording, data sharing intelligence/risk
  management systems which meet national standards
  requirements

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Thanks for listening

• Only able to skim the surface of our services
• Please contact me for more information
• Geoff Jennings
• 01509 219962
• 07917 172519
• geoff.jennings_at_btconnect.com