Charity Commission statement on Kids Company Judgment
The collapse of Kids Company was a matter of significant public, media and Parliamentary interest at the time, with ramifications for the wider charitable sector, notably on public trust and confidence in charities.聽聽聽
Today鈥檚 High Court judgment has upheld our finding of mismanagement of the charity鈥檚 finances and has confirmed that it was based on 鈥渁mple evidence鈥�. Furthermore, the judgment firmly rejected allegations we predetermined the outcome of the inquiry, stating the threshold for this was 鈥渘ot met in this case by a wide margin鈥�.聽聽聽
The court has confirmed it was entirely reasonable for the Commission to have drawn independent regulatory conclusions on the demise of Kids Company, based on all the evidence available, in keeping with the role Parliament has set us.聽聽聽
The judgment notes we took care in the inquiry report to point out areas in which the charity鈥檚 trustees were acting within their duties and responsibilities, and where we found external criticism of the charity was unfounded. Our inquiry report stated clearly there was 鈥渘o dishonesty, bad faith or inappropriate personal gain in the operation of the charity鈥�.聽聽
While the court has dismissed the challenge on all but two grounds, and is clear that the overall findings of our report were not 鈥榠rrational鈥�, we acknowledge its finding that we made important errors in relation to two paragraphs of the report and will act to remedy this.
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