Commonwealth Fraud Prevention Centre

The Commonwealth Fraud Prevention Centre’s purpose is to strengthen counter fraud arrangements across the Australian Government. This is done by: 

• Equipping stakeholders with leading practice guidance and tools to strengthen their counter fraud capability.
• Enabling stakeholders to respond to emerging issues, connect, collaborate and share data and information.
• Empowering stakeholders with a better evidence base and understanding of fraud so they can influence positive change.

The Centre has built a strong and trusted reputation among stakeholders and international partners, and have:

• Published over 40 leading practice guides and toolkits and developed internationally-recognised innovations such as Fraudster Personas.
• Provided direct support in areas such as fraud control, risk assessment, control testing, data sharing and fraud data analytics.
• Directly uplifted the capability of officials across the APS through the award-winning Counter Fraud Practitioner Training Program.

If you're an Australian Government entity looking to take proactive steps to develop your counter-fraud capability, the Commonwealth Fraud Prevention Centre can help you to:

• Design fraud-resilient policies and programs.
• Improve your fraud and corruption risk assessment processes.
• Implement processes to test your programs and functions for vulnerabilities.
• Share and analyse data to find and prevent fraud.
• Identify how to measure fraud and error in your entity and the impact of your counter-fraud activities.
• Prepare compelling counter-fraud narratives and investment cases.

This learning experience has been provided by the Commonwealth Fraud Prevention Centre.

Suitable for

All Staff

Category and User Level

This resource aligns with the Integrity craft at the Foundation level.