LIONS’ WEMBLEY GLORY
Issue 1326
Established: 1987
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May 25 2017
www.southwarknews.co.uk
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BIG DROP IN COUNCIL HOUSE FRAUD CASES
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‘Special investigation’ team sees numbers of suspected cases fall from over 1,700 to 509 - Page 4
EXCLUSIVE
By Owen Sheppard
owen@southwarknews.co.uk
has fallen dramatically since 2014, a report has shown.
A “special investigation” team within Southwark Council’s Housing and Modernisation Department detected 509 suspect housing-tenancy cases between April 2016 and March 2017, compared with 1,751 in 2014-15.
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