Integrity that holds
Ethical culture, standards and speaking up.
A short, focused look at integrity under pressure: fraud and procurement, candour and the Hillsborough Law, statutory officers and building an ethical culture.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 2 hours 30 minutes
- Where
- Ethics, Integrity and Standards
- Price
- £69
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Senior leaders, statutory officers and members shaping organisational integrity
Overview
Integrity has to hold under pressure: in an emergency procurement, when a report is uncomfortable, or when a culture quietly drifts. This programme covers fraud, bribery and the new failure to prevent fraud offence, with CIPFA's principles and the Covid-19 PPE high priority lane as a case. It examines candour and the proposed duty in the Hillsborough Law, the roles of monitoring and section 151 officers, and accountability without scapegoating. It then explores how leaders build ethical culture, drawing on Treviño's moral person and moral manager, before applying everything to Thurrock Council and two illustrative Welsh cases.
Aims
This programme aims to develop leaders who make integrity part of how their organisation works, not just what it says: managing fraud risk, volunteering what others need to know, supporting statutory officers, and visibly modelling the conduct that shapes culture, so that standards hold when pressure rises.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Identify fraud, bribery and procurement risks, including the failure to prevent fraud offence, and apply CIPFA's principles to strengthen controls under pressure.
- Distinguish honesty from candour and apply duties of candour and impartial advice in ways that support accountability without scapegoating individuals.
- Plan practical steps that build an ethical culture, drawing on the moral person and moral manager and on lessons from real and illustrative cases.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Describe the main fraud and bribery offences, including failure to prevent fraud, and the defence each corporate offence allows.
- Identify red flags in procurement and payments and explain why controls and equal treatment matter most under urgency.
- Distinguish honesty, candour and accountability, and describe the current status and main provisions of the Public Office (Accountability) Bill.
- Explain how impartial, recorded advice and the statutory duties of monitoring and section 151 officers support speaking truth to power.
- Explain the difference between the moral person and the moral manager and why both are needed to be seen as an ethical leader.
- Apply the programme's ethical themes, from blind spots to culture, to analyse a real or illustrative case.
Built from 2 parts.
2 hours 30 minutes of learning.
- 01When no one is watchingBribery Act, fraud and duty of candourBitesize2 modules
- 02A culture where integrity holdsBuilding an ethical organisational cultureBitesize2 modules
Keep going.
Part of the Ethics, Integrity and Standards topic, also sold whole as Integrity first.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereFocus, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69
- The whole topicExplore, Integrity first, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Focus? You pay £60.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Governing with confidence, Serving your community well