Decision details

(1)        That, with effect from 1 April 2015, the proposed structure for the Internal Audit and Corporate Fraud Investigation Unit be approved, as set out at Appendix 1 of the report;

(2)        That, subject to job evaluation, a new post of Senior Fraud Investigator be created;

(3)        That, subject to job evaluation, three new posts of Fraud Investigator be created;

(4)        That the post of Auditor (0.4FTE) be made full time;

(5)        That, in order to finance the General Fund costs of the above, a Continuing Services Budget growth bid in the sum of £58,075 for 2015/16 be made;

(6)        That the additional £41,265 required funding from the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) be funded from the HRA’s Housing Improvements and Service Enhancements Fund;

(7)        That the location of the existing Benefits Fraud staff be continued within the Resources Directorate, under the management of the Assistant Director (Benefits), until they transfer to the Single Fraud Investigation Service from 1 October 2015; and

(8)        That an annual saving of £134,030, arising partly in 2015/16 and partly in 2016/17, be noted following the transfer of the Benefit Fraud staff to the Single Fraud Investigation Service and other consequent changes to the Benefits Division.