Council fraud detection has increased by over one third in the last year, but this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Councils have succeeded in detecting £185 million worth of fraud in 2010/11, an improvement of 37 per cent on last year’s figure of £135 million. This is equivalent to a year’s funding for around 700 libraries or the wages of up to 11,000 care workers. But the total loss of revenue through fraud is estimated to be £2b.

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