Mar132024

Ethical codes, protagonists of the new formation of the AVAF

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Valencia. – March 12, 2024

The importance of ethical codes as true frameworks of public integrity has been highlighted in the new training session given by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

By virtue of the existing collaboration between the General Directorate of Transparency of the Generalitat Valenciana, the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Province, the Valencia Provincial Council, the Castellón Provincial Council, the Alicante Provincial Council, the University of Valencia and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, an online conference, 3 and a half hours long, was held. The institutional welcome was given by José Tàrrega, general director of transparency of the GVA and the FVMP.

Irene Bravo Rey, Director of Prevention, Training and Documentation of the Agency, starred in the main conference of the day “How to develop an ethical code so that it is a true framework of public integrity.”

In his presentation, 12 tools were presented for the development of an ethical code that articulate a new toolbox for the promotion of this operational instrument.

The presentation is available to interested parties at the following link.

In the second part of the day, Bernabé Aldeguer Cerdá and Gonzalo Pardo Beneyto, professors of Political Science and Administration at the University of Valencia; and María Ángeles Abellán López, professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the UV, presented the institutional integrity survey at the local level that they invite all local entities of the Valencian Community to complete.

The training session had the participation of more than 50 public employees from the Valencian Community.

If you want to know the 12 tools to develop an ethical code, visit the blog of the Valencian Antifraud Agency https://www.antifraucv.es/12-herramientas-para-elaborar-un-codigo-etico/

If you wish to have specialized training in matters of integrity and prevention of corruption in your public administration, do not hesitate to write to formacion@antifraucv.es.

Mar82024

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency and the European University of Valencia begin their collaboration with two #DocuforumAVAF

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Valencia. – March 6 and 7, 2024

The first training activity carried out between the AVAF and the UEV has been the celebration of two #DocuforumAVAF in the subject of “General principles of crime and punishment” thanks to the collaboration of professors Susana Berrocal and Carla de Paredes.

On March 6, 2024, Anselm Bodoque, head of the Training Service, energized the debate with the first course of the Law Degree at the European University of Valencia and the following day the #DocuforumAVAF was held with the second course of the double Degree of Criminology and Law, and the double Degree of Criminology and Psychology.

The learning experience offered by the AVAF to the university students allowed for the development of a fruitful debate around the doubts and questions raised by the students, which focused on the effectiveness of the tools developed to eradicate corruption, as well as the effectiveness of fraud prevention control and audit systems, in addition to insisting on civic culture and ways to break the links between apparently minor forms of corruption and major ones.

The measures implemented in the Valencian Community to fight corruption, together with the way fraud affects the quality of public services, such as education and health, stood out among the doubts raised.

The role of citizens in detecting and reporting cases of corruption in public institutions, as well as the use of artificial intelligence to combat corruption were other questions asked of AVAF staff.

With this first activity, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency and the European University of Valencia begin a collaborative relationship that aims to enhance the critical spirit of Valencian youth.

If you are a university, high school or 4th year ESO teacher in the Valencian Community and are interested in having the training activity “Docuforum: Corruption, harmful organism” carried out in your classroom, do not hesitate to contact the training service of the Valencian Antifraud Agency through formacion@antifraucv.es

Mar52024

The tender period for the contracting of the psychological care service for whistleblowers of corruption of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency is now open

València, March 5, 2024.- The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has published on the Public Sector Procurement Platform the tender notice for the contracting of the psychological assistance and care service for people who whistleblow corruption.

The Law on the creation of the Agency and the regulation governing the Statute of the Whistleblower of Corruption include the right to psychological support for the person reporting corruption, which also appears in Law 2/2023 regulating the protection of persons who report regulatory and anti-corruption breaches. Specifically, article 37 of this law specifies psychological help among the measures to support these people. This law was enacted in transposition of European Directive 2019/1937, which in its article 20.2 provides that Member States may provide support measures to whistleblowers, including psychological support.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency was the first entity in Spain to offer protection to whistleblowers and at the moment 37 people (one of them legal entities) have been granted the Protection Statute. In the 7 years of experience that the Agency’s staff has accumulated in the care of protection complainants, they have seen how many of these people have been forced to receive psychological treatment in the difficult situations experienced as a result of filing a complaint.

The pressure to which whistleblowers of corruption are subjected is manifested both in the professional sphere, with situations of harassment or mobbing, and in the personal and family sphere.

In order to offer the best psychological care to these people, the Agency puts out to tender the contracting of this service after carrying out a preliminary market consultation, since there is no background that serves as a reference in relation to psychological care for protection whistleblowers.

Contractual services

The contract includes three types of services that will be part of this new service. On the one hand, the psychological support service itself for whistleblowers of corruption, which will consist of a personal and direct support treatment for the person, telematically or in person of up to a maximum of 15 sessions of between 45 and 50 minutes each. In any case, this treatment would cease if the complainant was receiving psychological treatment from the public health system.

The second of the benefits refers to the assistance and accompaniment in the advice and interviews that the Agency’s staff maintains with the complainants in meetings that will last a maximum of 1 hour and a half.

And the third and last of the benefits refers to advising the Agency’s staff in charge of the protection of whistleblowers of corruption to offer them guidelines and tools that help them improve the care of these people with a maximum of 2 sessions per month.

The contract has a duration of 1 year and estimates that 30% of the protected persons, i.e. 10 people, will benefit from this service. The total cost of the contract is 14,883 euros and the deadline for submitting bids ends on March 15, 2024 at 11:59 p.m

You can find all the information on the Public Sector Procurement Platform at the following link:

https://contrataciondelestado.es/wps/portal/!ut/p/b0/04_Sj9CPykssy0xPLMnMz0vMAfIjU1JTC3Iy87KtUlJLEnNyUuNzMpMzSxKTgQr0w_Wj9KMyU1zLcvQjS42dTYtCLAzNI3JUDQLMc7zM3UoNgh1tbfULcnMdAd3eBsE!/