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Fraud Prevention

Fraud control management is a process to identify, evaluate, manage and monitor fraud risks as required by the Financial Management Act 1994 (external site)

What is Fraud?

Fraud is:

• Dishonestly obtaining a benefit or advantage,
• Causing actual or potential financial loss, by deception or other means, or
• Corruption, which is defined as dishonest activity in which an employee or contractor acts against the interests of DHS and abuses a position of trust in order to obtain a benefit or advantage.

Reporting a suspected Fraud

If you know about or have good reason to suspect a fraud, please report it immediately to the employee’s manager.

If you feel that you cannot report it to their manager or the manager does not act on the report, you can report it to a manager at a higher level and/or the Manager Fraud Prevention in the Corporate Integrity Information and Resolutions unit.

Link to the Manager Fraud Prevention contact information

Whistleblower

State Whistleblower legislation also provides you with the option to report a suspected fraud to the department's Protected Disclosure Co-ordinator under the Whistleblower Protection Act 2001.

For further information please refer to the Whistleblowers page.