Sponsors and Exhibitors - Conference 2025
We thank our sponsors and exhibitors for their continued support of the Tenancy Fraud Forum. Find out more about them, their products and services, below.
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Katrina Robinson MBE | ChairKatrina is the Chair of the Tenancy Fraud Forum and one of its founding members. She is a solicitor who specialises in Housing Management law with a particular emphasis on tenancy fraud. In 2017 she was awarded an MBE for Services to Social Housing. She worked in-house for housing associations for a number of years where she also set up and managed Fraud Investigation Teams. She is absolutely committed to using all the relevant legislation to take the toughest action against fraudsters and will pursue the enforcement of Unlawful Profit Orders across the globe.
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Stephanie Toghill | Vice ChairStephanie is currently Vice Chair of the Tenancy Fraud Forum and was one of its founding members. She also sits on the Executive Board for the London Boroughs’ Fraud Investigators’ Group and heads up the Housing Investigations Team for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Stephanie has over 15 years' experience in addressing tenancy fraud and is renowned as being a specialist in her field. During that time, not only has she provided assistance to over 150 housing associations on best practice in tackling tenancy fraud, but has also provided training, wrote several guidance documents and also advised on the creation of the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act.
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Alan Bryce | Committee MemberAlan is a founding member of the Tenancy Fraud Forum. He was an Executive Committee until 2016 and rejoined in December 2020. Through his former roles as Head of Counter Fraud and Cybercrime at the Charity Commission, Head of Counter Fraud at the Audit Commission and Chair of The European Institute for Tackling Corruption and Fraud, Alan has developed a broad knowledge of countering fraud and was responsible for first bringing the level of tenancy fraud to wider national prominence. Alan’s MSc dissertation on The Nature and Scale of Social Housing Fraud, the first academic study on tenancy fraud in the UK, remains extant as the basis for the sector's understanding of the scale of such fraud.
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Debbie Dansey | Committee MemberDebbie is both a founder and current Executive Committee Member of the Tenancy Fraud Forum. She is also a founder and current member of, the Kent Tenancy Fraud Forum regional group. Debbie is an accomplished counter fraud manager and investigator with over 30 year’s experience. She currently works for Ashford Borough Council in Kent, delivering a range of professional services which includes fraud prevention and detection, and investigative services. A personal aim of Debbie’s is to foster cooperation and liaison between investigators from all disciplines, to promote the prevention and detection of all fraud and financial irregularity in Local Authorities.
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Rob Ducker | Committee MemberRob joined the Tenancy Fraud Forum as an Executive Committee Member in 2016. In conjunction with this, he is also Chairs the Thames Valley regional tenancy fraud group, which he has done since January 2016. Following 25 years service with Thames Valley Police, he joined Oxford City Council as a Senior Investigation Officer in January 2016, where he currently manages a team of investigators and intelligence officers dealing with a wide range of reactive and proactive investigations including into tenancy fraud.
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Tade Olalekan | Committee MemberTade became a member of the Tenancy Fraud Forum Executive Committee in 2017. She also Chair’s the Hampshire Tenancy Fraud Forum regional group. Although she has worked in social housing for over 20 years, Tade has spent the last 17 years with Abri. For the last 4 years, she has been Abri’s lead for Tenancy Fraud, promoting tenancy fraud awareness within the organisation. Raising awareness of, and investigating tenancy fraud, is important to Tade, as she wishes to ensure that those in need have access to homes which otherwise would be denied through fraudulent use.
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Avril Drummond | Committee MemberAvril has been an Executive Committee Member of the Tenancy Fraud Forum since 2017. A very experienced and knowledgeable investigator who is passionate about stopping people exploiting the system and committing fraud, she is currently a Senior Corporate Fraud Investigator for Buckinghamshire Council. Avril has worked across various Boroughs in London, including Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Camden, Islington and Hounslow. Avril has worked in housing for local government and housing associations for over 20 years, where alongside pursuing civil and criminal cases, she has also provided guidance, established procedure and practice, and conducted tenancy fraud awareness training.
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Nicola Evans | Committee MemberNicola has been a member of the Tenancy Fraud Forum Executive Committee since November 2018. An accomplished counter fraud investigator and manager, with two decades of experience dealing with tenancy fraud for Local Authorities and Housing Associations, she currently works for the L&Q Group as their Tenancy Fraud Manager. Nicola is a real advocate of raising fraud awareness and considers it a privilege to be able to support the social housing sector in combating fraud in all its guises, both through her current role and membership of the TFF board.
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Vacant | Committee MemberTBC
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Jessie Napier | Committee MemberJessie recently joined the TFF Executive Committee on 4 February 2023, but has worked in housing fraud for 16 years as an investigator and manager. She has recently moved from Camden and is now the Housing Investigation Manager at RBKC. She is dedicated to tackling tenancy fraud, has a vast knowledge of housing law and is very passionate about all things housing fraud related. She has dealt with many criminal and civil cases and is currently doing work with Air B&B to enable better information sharing on sub-let properties.
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Vacant | Committee MemberTBC
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Amanda Morait | Committee MemberAmanda has been in affordable housing for over 20 years working in both Local Authorities and Housing Associations. She previously joined the Committee when she was the tenancy fraud lead for Radian, recovering 23 properties that were being used illegally and by raising the profile of tenancy fraud within the organisation and working with partners on data matching. She recently rejoined the Committee and is now the tenancy fraud lead for Moat Housing and recently successfully secured Moats first Unlawful Profit Order of nearly £12,000.
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Vacant | Committee MemberTBC
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Paula Craig - Perratt | Committee MemberPaula spent 8 years working in various operational and strategic roles in Local Authority Housing Services before taking up roles in Counter Fraud in 2018. She is a CIPFA Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist and has experience of delivering corporate fraud prevention and detection services to local authorities in Scotland. A recent inclusion to the TFF Executive Committee from March 2022, Paula is working alongside the Scottish Local Authorities Investigators Group to raise awareness of the impact tenancy fraud has on social housing providers in Scotland and to advocate for legislative changes to protect social housing stock across Scotland. Paula is currently working in the Corporate Fraud Team at Falkirk Council.
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Northern Ireland Housing Executive | Committee MemberThe Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) is the largest social housing provider in Northern Ireland responsible for approximately 85,000 properties. The NIHE is responsible for the Housing Selection Scheme throughout Northern Ireland assessing all housing and homeless applications. The NIHE administers housing benefit and rates relief throughout Northern Ireland to all claimants that are not in receipt of universal credit, as well as many other housing related functions. Our NIHE TFF Executive Committee member joined the committee in March 2022 bringing with them over 20 year’s experience in the NIHE. Throughout their career, they have worked in various departments providing them with a wealth of experience and knowledge within the housing sector. For the last 7 years, they have developed and managed the Tenancy Fraud Investigation Unit within the organisation. They are a CIPFA Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist and have been trained in Advanced Investigative Practices.
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Rajvinder Vine | Committee MemberRaj Vine joined the Tenancy Fraud Forum as an Executive Committee Member in 2023. With over 16 years of social housing experience, Raj has investigated cases of unlawful subletting nationally and is passionate to promote strategies to detect and prevent subletting within social housing. Raj played a key role in a sublet case obtaining an unlawful profit order for £145k. Raj believes with so many people on the housing waiting list, it’s essential that housing providers protect their assets, ensure properties are not misused and homes go to people who are in need.
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Iain Hewitt | Administrative SupportIain has over 35 years’ experience in criminal, civil and regulatory investigations and investigations management, both within the private and public sectors, domestically and internationally. His last role prior to retirement in February 2021 was as the Deputy Head of Investigations and Enforcement at the Charity Commission. However, he also spent 20 years as a policeman in the RAF, worked for the NHS as a Counter Fraud Specialist and also had a brief stint at the Audit Commission. Iain provides various ad hoc services to the TFF Executive Committee which include managing the TFFs social media and website.
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Visit their website at Fraud investigation service | Hertfordshire County Council
Intelligencia Training have been at the forefront of developing the UK’s intelligence and counter fraud investigation capability since 2016.
Working with an ever growing number of Government agencies, public sector departments, the law enforcement community, local authorities, housing associations and banking/insurance sectors our award winning levy funded apprenticeship training programmes are widely utilised.
Aligning with Government strategies including The Counter Fraud Profession and National Intelligence Decision Making Model our core training programmes are widely recognised as the benchmark for counter fraud and intelligence communities wishing to achieve parity with other Government departments. Available as fully funded apprenticeship programmes that have no direct impact upon training departmental training budgets these programmes deliver significant benefits to learners and organisations alike. You can read more at www.intelligenciatraining.com
The Oxford Investigation Service (OIS) safeguards public funds and delivers value for money through innovative shared service partnerships. A multi award-winning team, OIS specialises in fraud investigations, using advanced data-matching and accredited Financial Investigation Officers to recover assets under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Tackling social housing fraud is a priority, with a strong record of returning properties to stock and securing Unlawful Profit Orders in cases of unlawful subletting. Recovered funds can then be reinvested into social housing.
Visit the OIS stand at the TFF Conference on 13th May to see how we can help with tenancy fraud concerns.
LoCTA delivers the services that provide Local Authorities with a secure and efficient means of tracing debtors and tackling fraud with the aim of increasing revenue. It is THE Debt Recovery and Fraud Identification solution for Authorities, designed exclusively for their use, to increase revenue by tracing debtors and identifying and preventing fraud and crime.
The Hub houses Council Tax and NDR data from Authorities, which is refreshed weekly, alongside third-party data sets such as the Voters Roll, Deceased Data and Companies House records; providing everything Authorities need in one place to trace the people and businesses they need to find, easily and instantly, even from a single phone number or email address.
Now LoCTA is launching their new mobile app, LoCTA GO, to provide Authorities with instant verification of names and addresses for enforcement team members who work outside of the office. Together, LoCTA Hub and LoCTA GO – delivering the results that enable Authorities to protect the public purse.
PDA is a Counter Fraud training company, founded in 2000 by Peter Darby. Our personnel have all worked as counter fraud investigators and managers in the public and private sectors, and all hold recognised training qualifications.
We offer accredited learning solutions including the Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist (ACFS) and the Accredited Counter Fraud Technician (ACFTech). We also offer a range of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) one day courses..
Please look through our website www.pdacounterfraud.co.uk to find out more or make an online booking. To discuss any discounts we may be able to offer please contact Peter via e-mail peter@pdacounterfraud.co.uk
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