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NEWS & EVENTS

Fair processing your dATA

oplar HARCA is required by law to protect the public funds
Pit administers. It may share information provided to it with
other bodies in order to prevent and detect fraud.
The Cabinet Office is responsible for carrying out data
matching exercises. Data matching involves organisations
comparing computer records to see how far they match. This is require the consent of an
usually personal information. Computerised data matching individual. Data matching by
allows potentially fraudulent claims and payments to be the Cabinet Office is subject to a
identified. Where a match is found it may indicate that there is Code of Practice which is online
an inconsistency which requires investigation. No assumption here:
can be made as to whether there is fraud, error or other www.gov.uk/government/publication
explanation until an investigation is carried out. s/code-of-data-matching-practice-
Poplar HARCA participates in the Cabinet Office’s National for-national-fraud-initiative.
Fraud Initiative: a data matching exercise to assist in the For further information on data
prevention and detection of fraud. It provides particular sets of matching at Poplar HARCA contact
data which are described online here: Nazmul Ahmed at
www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-fraud-initiative. info@poplarharca.co.uk, or go to the

The use of data by the Cabinet Office in a data matching website:
exercise is carried out with statutory authority under Part 6 of www.poplarharca.co.uk/data-
the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014. It does not protection.

In the Spotlight

potlight were up for 3 Tower Hamlets youth Awards in February for Personal Achievement,
Innovative Project and Creative Achievement. 45 young people from Spotlight attended the
Sevent, and were delighted to bring home the Innovative Project award for their volunteering
during the school holidays as part of the Community Heroes project. Great work!

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