Some organisations will have established specialist counter fraud teams and these standards and guidance are designed to enable those teams to develop their capability in a common way across government that will, over time, increase the ability of these organisations to share resource and practice under a common understanding.

For organisations that make use of more part-time internal investigative resource, the intention is the resource should develop to meet the standards within this document if they do not already. To begin with, an organisation may decide that the foundation standard level in the competency framework is most relevant to their organisation. Over time, these resources have the opportunity to increase their capability against these standards to Practitioner level with the intention of making investigation functions more efficient and effective, and enabling greater crossover between individuals.