The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency publishes a Catalogue of risks concerning labor personnel in the Valencian public sector

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Valencia, October 3, 2025. – The Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community (AVAF) has drawn up the Catalogue of risks concerning labor personnel in the Valencian public sector, a document that becomes a key tool to minimize the risks of irregular management, fraud, and corruption in public administration.

 

The new catalogue arises in response to a particularly relevant fact: 40% of the complaints received by AVAF in 2024 were related to personnel management, many of them linked to recruitment and selection systems, which calls for an urgent response from public authorities.

 

The study highlights risks and practices that undermine the principles of equality, merit, and ability, such as:

  • Hiring of labor personnel without the university degree required for access, promotion, or filling of job positions.
  • Recruitment processes limited to interviews or subjective curriculum evaluations, breaching the principles of merit and ability.
  • Use of labor positions as a mechanism for consolidating temporary or non-permanent staff.
  • Inclusion of labor positions in subgroup A1 with managerial functions or the exercise of public powers, contrary to the Spanish Constitution, the Consolidated Text of the Basic Statute of Public Employees (TREBEP), and case law.

 

These dynamics, AVAF warns, foster clientelism, the political instrumentalization of job structures, and the de-professionalization of civil service, thereby weakening the legitimacy of public administration before citizens.

 

The catalogue not only identifies risks but also aims to provide Valencian public institutions with a reference framework to strengthen the professionalization of their human resources, ensure transparent recruitment processes, and safeguard institutional integrity.

 

AVAF stresses that positions involving public powers (inspection, control, sanctioning, auditing, or authorization) must be reserved for civil servants, since assigning them to labor personnel constitutes a violation of the Spanish Constitution and TREBEP.

Catalog Executive Summary

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency approves its First Equality Plan

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Valencia, September 1, 2025.- The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF) has approved its first Equality Plan, whose overall objective is to consolidate an organizational culture committed to equality, eliminating any structural, mental, or customary barriers that hinder the full development of this principle.

 

The First Equality Plan will be in force for four years and applies to all AVAF staff. The text was drafted on the basis of a detailed participatory diagnosis carried out in May 2023, with the involvement of the entire workforce, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The diagnosis identified as areas for improvement specific training on equality, as well as the perception that reconciliation of work and personal life may affect the professional opportunities of some employees.

 

The plan includes 19 lines of action structured around the following strategic areas:

  • Access to employment and career development: Ensure procedures and selection bodies incorporate equality and transparency, reinforcing equality training for the staff involved.
  • Shared responsibility in work-life balance: Promote the full and shared exercise of personal, family, and work rights without undermining professional promotion, including measures such as the right to digital disconnection.
  • Equality training: Promote the inclusion of a gender perspective in all internal and external training programs.
  • Balanced presence in decision-making bodies: Raise awareness to ensure the balanced representation of women and men in collegiate and decision-making bodies.
  • Prevention and protection against sexual harassment and harassment based on sex: Permanent dissemination of protocols, awareness campaigns, and psychological support, guaranteeing a safe environment and zero tolerance for such behavior.
  • Pay equality: Continue guaranteeing, through review and monitoring systems, the absence of wage discrimination on the grounds of sex.
  • Monitoring and evaluation: Establish a joint commission responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and reviewing the effective implementation of the plan, its indicators, and regulatory updates.
  • Labor rights of victims of gender-based violence: Promote awareness and exercise of rights and specific support protocols through training and awareness campaigns.
  • Mainstreaming and inclusive communication: Extend the gender perspective to all areas, campaigns, and communications, reviewing institutional language and images to ensure they are non-sexist.

The execution and evaluation of the plan will be entrusted to a joint commission made up of representatives of the entity and of the workforce, responsible for conducting annual monitoring, as well as evaluations at the two- and four-year marks.

 

With this initiative, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency aligns its equality policies with regional, national, and European regulations. For further information, the full text of the First Equality Plan is available at the following link.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency signs new collaboration protocols with public institutions to strengthen whistleblowing channels and public integrity

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València, 23 july 2025.- The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF) continues to strengthen its efforts to prevent corruption and promote institutional integrity through the signing of various collaboration protocols with local entities, public bodies, and professional associations.

In recent months, the Director of AVAF, Eduardo Beut, has signed agreements with the Alicante Bar Association (21 February 2025), the Valencian Institute of Social Services – IVASS (19 February 2025), and CEU Cardenal Herrera University, through an addendum extending the educational cooperation agreement (9 January 2025).

Protocols have also been signed with the municipalities of Villena (13 January 2025), Paiporta and Llocnou de Sant Jeroni (both on 30 October 2024), Domeño (28 October 2024), Segart (25 October 2024), Xàtiva (10 October 2024), La Pobla del Duc (24 September 2024), and Ròtova (18 September 2024).

Additionally, the collaboration with the General Council of Notaries has been renewed through the first addendum extending the framework agreement signed on 2 October 2024, and an agreement has been formalised with the Valencian Institute of Agricultural Research – IVIA (25 September 2024).

Under these agreements, the signatory entities will enable AVAF’s whistleblowing channel as an external channel, which will be accessible through their respective websites. This channel guarantees the confidentiality of whistleblowers and allows for anonymous reporting.
These protocols allow the participating institutions to implement internal reporting systems (internal whistleblowing channels) in compliance with Law 2/2023, of 20 February, regulating the protection of individuals who report regulatory violations and fight against corruption.

This law, which transposes Directive (EU) 2019/1937 —known as the Whistleblowers Directive— into Spanish law, establishes the obligation to provide secure channels for receiving information on possible irregularities.

In addition to the implementation of these channels, the agreements include joint actions in training and awareness-raising. As such, staff from the signatory entities will receive training in key areas such as public ethics.

With these additions, AVAF facilitates regulatory compliance and promotes a culture of integrity, prevention, and detection of fraud and corruption.

 

Latest protocols signed, available on the Transparency Portal:

  • Alicante Bar Association. Signed on 21 February 2025.
  • Valencian Institute of Social Services (IVASS). Signed on 19 February 2025.
  • Municipality of Villena. Signed on 13 January 2025.
  • Addendum extending the educational cooperation agreement between the Valencian Anti-Fraud and Corruption Prevention Agency and CEU Cardenal Herrera University, for university student internships. Signed on 9 January 2025.
  • Municipality of Paiporta. Signed on 30 October 2024.
  • Municipality of Llocnou de Sant Jeroni. Signed on 30 October 2024.
  • Municipality of Domeño. Signed on 28 October 2024.
  • Municipality of Segart. Signed on 25 October 2024.
  • Municipality of Xàtiva. Signed on 10 October 2024.
  • First addendum extending the framework agreement between the General Council of Notaries and the Valencian Anti-Fraud and Corruption Prevention Agency. Signed on 2 October 2024.
  • Valencian Institute of Agricultural Research (IVIA). Signed on 25 September 2024.
  • Municipality of La Pobla del Duc. Signed on 24 September 2024.
  • Municipality of Ròtova. Signed on 18 September 2024.