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You and Yours: Fraud statistics, Charity award ceremonies, Safety in hospitals

15/10/2015

Fraud statistics, Charity award ceremonies, Safety in hospitals

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Fraud statistics, Charity award ceremonies, Safety in hospitals

A new report raises concerns about safety in English hospitals - what is being done?

New crime statistics include fraud for the first time - what's the true scale of it? Plus how some car dealers are breaking the law with selling tactics.

The annual Crime Survey for England and Wales, released this morning, includes fraud statistics for the first time. It gives the clearest picture we've ever had of the scale of financial cons - many of which go unreported because victims choose not to come forward. Crime has steadily fallen in recent years, but some experts suggest rather than having disappeared completely, many criminals have simply moved online. We speak to the City of London Police, which heads up the UK Fraud Intelligence Bureau, about the scale of fraud and what's being done to combat it.

The health watchdog the CQC has described safety in the NHS in England as "a significant concern". They judged three quarters of the hospitals they visited to be inadequate or requiring improvement. Of care homes and nursing services more than 40% had problems with safety. As did one in three GP services. What's being done?

Charity Award Ceremonies are nothing new - big, glitzy events with celebrity hosts handing out gongs to people who have given up their time to help others. Some probably don't cost much to stage. But we speak to one woman who was asked to pay £400 to attend an event; money which she pointed out could have been better spent on charity aid. Can that ever be acceptable? We speak to the organisers of annual event, The Charity Awards.

Presented by: Winifred Robinson
Produced by: Olive Clancy.

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