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Anti-Bribery Awareness eLearning
Online anti-bribery training built around the Bribery Act 2010: the four offences, the corporate offence your business can commit, and the adequate procedures that are its only defence.
Who it is for
Who this anti-bribery course is for
The Bribery Act created an offence a commercial organisation can commit simply by failing to prevent bribery by someone associated with it. Training is one of the procedures that make the defence available, and it has to reach the people who deal with customers, suppliers and agents.
- Sales, procurement and commercial teams
- Anyone who gives or receives hospitality or gifts at work
- Staff working with agents, intermediaries or overseas partners
- Finance and accounts teams
- Directors and senior managers
- All staff, as part of induction or annual refresher training
Course content
What the anti-bribery course covers
Six short modules from what bribery actually is to the practical grey areas, hospitality, facilitation payments and charitable donations.
What bribery is
Bribery, corruption and the difference between them, with everyday business examples.
The four offences
Bribing, being bribed, bribing a foreign public official, and the corporate failure to prevent.
Adequate procedures
The six principles the Ministry of Justice guidance sets out, and how training fits in.
Gifts and hospitality
Where reasonable hospitality ends and a bribe begins, and how thresholds and registers help.
Facilitation payments
Why small payments to speed things up are still bribery under UK law.
Reporting concerns
Raising a suspicion internally, and the protection available to people who do.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Recognise bribery in the situations it actually arises in
- Name the four offences under the Bribery Act 2010
- Explain why the corporate offence makes prevention a business issue
- Judge whether hospitality is reasonable and proportionate
- Explain why facilitation payments are not permitted
- Raise a concern through the right route
Your legal duty
The law behind anti-bribery training
The Bribery Act 2010 creates four offences: bribing another person, being bribed, bribing a foreign public official, and: for commercial organisations, failing to prevent bribery by an associated person. That last one is a strict liability offence.
The only defence to the corporate offence is that the organisation had adequate procedures in place to prevent bribery. Government guidance sets out six principles for those procedures, and communication and training is one of them, which is why documented staff training matters commercially as well as ethically.
- Bribery Act 2010 - the four offences
- The corporate offence of failing to prevent bribery
- Adequate procedures as the statutory defence
- Communication and training as one of the six guidance principles
Practicalities
How the course works
For employers
Anti-Bribery training for a team
Because adequate procedures is a whole-organisation defence, the training record needs to cover the whole organisation, not only the sales team.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
Where your own procedures, equipment and reporting lines need to be in the training, we can build that version for you. Talk to us about a bespoke version →
Anti-Bribery Awareness eLearning: common questions
Not by name. But the only defence to the corporate offence of failing to prevent bribery is having adequate procedures. Communication and training is one of the principles government guidance sets out for those procedures.
No. Reasonable and proportionate hospitality is legitimate. The course explains where the line sits and why registers and thresholds help you stay on the right side of it.
A small payment to an official to speed up a routine action they are already obliged to perform. They are bribery under the Bribery Act, even where local practice tolerates them.
It has significant extra-territorial reach, including for organisations that carry on business in the UK. The course covers this at awareness level.
About 30 minutes, with no time limit: start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued the moment you finish.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them, with completion reporting included.
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