Fraud Prevention Metrics for Social Housing in England

Counter fraud data from Wycombe District Council, last updated 2026-07-08. It likely contains metrics on the use of legal powers, staffing levels, and spending related to fraud investigation and prosecution in social housing. The dataset is published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking local authority fraud investigation efforts based on reported employee counts and spending.
• Analyzing the application of legal powers under the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Regulations 2014.
• Modeling fraud case investigation volumes based on reported numbers of cases investigated.

Strengths

• Specific legal framework cited: Prevention of Social Housing Fraud (Power to require Information) (England) Regulations 2014.
• Distinguishes between absolute and full-time equivalent employee counts for staffing metrics.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Wycombe District Council

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:27.774520; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England, likely specific to the Wycombe District Council area.