Reporting fraud, bribery and corruption

Information about how to report your concerns about fraud and corruption and what you can report to us.

You can contact us using the details below to report your concerns about:

• fraud, corruption, bribery or blackmail at the council
  
• legal or statutory duties that we aren't carrying out
  
• a council officer or councillor who is using their position of authority at the council in the wrong way, for example to gain personal benefit
  

Please refer to the whistleblowing policy for full details about what information should be reported through this channel, how to report your concerns and how these will be handled.

For more information about the work the council does to address the risk of fraud and corruption, please see the counter fraud and corruption strategy and response plan. You can also find details of our participation with the National Fraud Initiative (NFI) which matches data between other public sector, private sector and government departments to identify instances of poor data quality, error or fraud.

How to report your concerns

You can report your concerns to us by:

• calling the whistleblowing hotline on 0113 378 8008
  
• writing to the Fraud and Corruption Team, Internal Audit, 3rd Floor West, Civic Hall, Leeds, LS1 1JF
  
• emailing us at concerns@leeds.gov.uk
  

All referrals will be treated in the strictest of confidence.

You can raise a concern anonymously if you prefer, however it may be more difficult for us to investigate your concerns if we can't contact you for further information or check the information you’ve already given us.

If your concern relates to a complaint, suspected benefit fraud, housing tenancy fraud, blue badge misuse or claiming council tax discounts not entitled to, please use the following contact details.