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Anti-Bribery and Corruption Training

Despite a worldwide effort to eradicate bribery, it is still prevalent in many countries and presents a real risk for businesses. Bribery is a criminal offence and a predicate offence that can lead to money laundering charges. Both offences carry harsh penalties, including imprisonment and unlimited fines. Any substantial gifts or hospitality could be seen as a bribe, including charitable donations. Even small favours that you think nothing of could be perceived as inducements. Our Bribery Prevention Course will help your employees to understand what bribery is, the relevant anti-bribery laws and your systems and procedures for bribery prevention.

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  • 30 Minutes
  • For all staff
  • UK Bribery Act 2010
  • Based on UK legislation, but suitable for global audiences upon the removal of UK-specific references and translation as necessary.

Learning objectives

  • Define what bribery is
  • Recognise the consequences of offering or accepting bribes
  • Explain the provisions of the UK Bribery Act 2010
  • Identify common bribery red flags
  • Comply with your Company's policies for gifts, corporate hospitality, travel expenses and facilitation payments
  • Recognise when and how to seek advice and report concerns or suspicions of bribery

    What can you expect your employees to learn?

Introduction

  • Bribery is an enormous problem
  • Bribery is detrimental to society
  • We have zero-tolerance for bribery

Key legislation

  • UK Bribery Act 2010
  • UK Bribery Act penalties
  • US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
  • FCPA penalties
  • Comparing the FCPA & UK Bribery Act

What can be a bribe?

  • You decide: Could it be a bribe?
  • Offering non-cash favours
  • Using intermediaries
  • Accounting for the expenses
  • Who could be liable?
  • The situation reported
  • The investigator arrives
  • Associated persons: Employee actions
  • Associated persons: Third-party actions
  • Example: FIFA
  • You decide: Associated persons
  • Example: Airline Services Ltd
  • Working with associated persons
  • Best practice: Preventing bribery
  • Red flags
  • Bribe offered but not paid
  • Bribe solicited by manager
  • Example: Sainsbury's
  • Hiring Imani's son
  • Best practice: Recruitment
  • Scenario: Interviewing a friend
  • Scenario: A candidate with connections
  • Example: Hiring relatives
  • Jason gathers further information

The corporate offence

  • Is the company responsible for associated persons?
  • You make the call: Associated persons

Bribery of foreign public officials

  • Who is a foreign public official?
  • You decide: Foreign public officials
  • Example: TechnipFMC

Facilitation payments

  • You decide: Facilitation payments
  • Example: Vetco International

Gifts, hospitality & expenses

  • Hospitality
  • Gifts & expenses
  • Travel
  • Entry 1: An invitation
  • Entry 2: A conference
  • Entry 3: A change of location
  • Example: Novartis

Donations & sponsorships

  • Entry 1: A tender
  • Entry 2: An upcoming election
  • Entry 3: A fundraising event
  • Example: Vimpelcom

Reporting bribery

  • Email 1: A lunch invitation
  • Email 2: The new relationship manager
  • Email 3: Dealing with agents
  • Example: Ericsson
  • Sometime later...
  • Getting advice & raising concerns

Summary

Affirmation

Assessment

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Your questions, answered

Bribery Prevention

Common FAQs

How can I monitor and manage anti-bribery compliance in my organisation?

Implementing a gifts and hospitality register enables you to monitor and manage anti-bribery compliance effectively. Employees can log gifts, entertainment, and hospitality, providing a transparent overview of potential risks.

How can I effectively distribute my anti-bribery policy to employees?

Our Policy Hub allows you to upload and distribute your anti-bribery policy seamlessly to all employees. This centralised platform simplifies policy distribution and includes an attestation feature, ensuring employees acknowledge and commit to complying with the policy.

Are Skillcast courses SCORM-compliant?

Yes. This means they can be delivered via the Skillcast Portal or any other SCORM-compliant Learning Management System.

What other tools are needed beyond training?

A comprehensive compliance solution often needs more than just training. Alongside e-learning, tools such as declarations, surveys and registers that track compliance tasks are usually essential. Skillcast provides full support to help you set up these additional tools.

Is our training content still compliant with the latest legislation?

  • You can check the latest course content updates in our library updates page: https://www.skillcast.com/compliance-course-library-updates
  • For major legislative changes, we:
    • Send you email alerts to ensure you are notified
    • Offer you a free trial of newly created or updated content
    • Host webinars with compliance experts to explain the changes and how our training supports your ongoing compliance

Can you translate our content into other languages?

Yes, we offer translations in a wide range of languages. Let us know your needs, and we’ll confirm availability or work with you to plan translations for your selected modules.

What file types are supported by the Skillcast system?

Features

Supported file types and details

File Exchange

File types: PDF, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, SCORM and xAPI files, and compressed zip files. Max file size: Default is 1GB, can be increased to a max of 2GB

SCORM files

Versions: SCORM 1.2, SCORM 1.2 for Moodle, SCORM 2004 2nd, 3rd and 4th Edition. Max file size: 1024MB

xAPI file

Max file size: 2GB

Videos

File types: MP4 or MOV. Videos must be optimised, with a max file size of 100MB. If the file is bigger, our Design Team can help

Images

File types: jpg, png and gif. The file size should ideally be 100KB, but it can be up to 250KB

CPD evidence

File types: Word, PDF, Excel and CSV. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Policy documents

PDF or Word File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Offline activities evidence

File types: PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PNG, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PPTX and MSG. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Client logo files

File types provided by client: EPS, PDF, AI and SVG

Registers

PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PPT, PPTX, POT, PPA, PPS, JPG, JPEG, PJEPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, MP4, MOV, WMV, CPTX, CP, TXT, ZIP and MSG files

Declarations

JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, XLS and XLSX files

 

What is Aida and how does it ensure reliable answers?

 Aida is an AI tutor embedded in courses that allows learners to ask questions at any point during learning. It draws exclusively on content that has been vetted and curated by your organisation, including course materials, internal policies, approved web resources, and regulator sites. This curated approach ensures answers reflect accurate, organisation‑specific guidance. 

Can administrators see what questions are asked and how Aida responds?

Yes. Reporting includes both the questions asked and Aida’s responses. For meaningful insight, questions are also categorised by topic (e.g., records management, gifts and hospitality) to reveal trends. All reporting is anonymised by default to encourage open, non‑threatening inquiry. To protect assessment integrity, Aida is disabled during assessments and is only available during the learning components of a course.

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