Among speakers at a fraud prevention summit on September 28 are John Marsden, Head of Fraud at the credit checking agency Equifax; Sue Frith, Managing Director of the central security and counter-fraud body for the National Health Service, NHS Protect; Edward Whittingham, of Business Fraud Prevention Partnership; Gary Broadfield, Director, Head of Cyber Crime, Solicitor at the law firm Garstangs Cartwright King; Adam Smith, Forensic Accountant-Director at the accountancy firm BDO; Marc McAuley, the long-time fraud investigator who’s Counter Fraud Group Manager at the London Borough of Waltham Forest; and Prof Mark Button, pictured, Director of Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at the University of Portsmouth.
The all-day event is at Adelphi House, Salford and is chaired by John Marsden. The venue is the home of the conference organisers, Salford Professional Development, part of the University of Salford. For more details visit http://www.salford.ac.uk/onecpd/courses/.
As organisers point out, fraud costs public services, money that should be invested, in this time of continued budget cuts, into improving those services for the people they serve.