How ministers gave millions to Kids Company despite repeated warnings from officials
Alan Yentob, the senior BBC executive, is facing further criticism over his role at the charity Kids Company after it emerged that a whistleblower had raised concerns about mismanagement over a decade agoAn official report into the high profile charity which collapsed in the summer found that in 2005 a experienced public sector manager quit the charity after just four months and sent a whistleblowing memo to its trustees of whom Mr Yentob was chairman for 18 years and civil servants at the Department for Education.The manager concerns to DfE and Kids Company trustees about Kids Company senior management structure and governance and about some of the individuals receiving cash payments from the charity the report by the National Audit Office said.The manager had been canada goose outlet phone number put in place as part of the https://www.canadagooseonlineshop.co.uk conditions attached to a new funding package by Whitehall officials who were growing increasingly concerned about the way that Kids Company, which provided help and support to young people in London, was being run.Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh Photo: GettyYet, despite the concerns, Kids Company continued to apply for and receive millions of pounds in taxpayers’ right up until the month before the charity collapsed in August this canada goose outlet hong kong year.Accountants at the NAO trawled the national archives to construct the first ever complete picture of the canada goose outlet in uk scale of the Government cash handed to Kids Company, which was run by the flamboyant Camila Batmanghelidjh.It found that the public sector provided support for the charity for canada goose outlet orlando least 15 years and for 12 of those years civil servants concerns about the way the charity was being run were ignored.In all 46 million of central and local Government money was handed to the charity far more than the 30million previously thought from at least six different Government departments.The NAO found evidence of special treatment by the taxman. In addition to HM Revenue and Customs writing off tax debts of 590,000 in 2003, a Cabinet Office review in 2014 found a previously unknown in place with HMRC to pay off historic debts, but the amount of the debt is unknownThe NAO found consistent pattern of canada goose outlet florida behaviour each time Kids Company approached the end of a grant term on six separate occasions between 2002 and 2014 which meant that the charity got its cash, despite objections.It started with Company lobby[ing] the government for a new funding commitmentofficials resisted, the charity would write to ministers expressing fears of redundancies and the impact of service closures. Around the same time, Kids Company would express the same concerns in the media.Next ministers would officials to review options for funding Kids Company Then finally: would award grants to Kids Company, whether through a wide grant programmeMeg Hillier, the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee which oversees the NAO, told The Telegraph: bells should have rung for anyone monitoring value for money for the taxpayer.were being asked, they would get assurances from Kids Company and they bunged them the money anyway.The effect on junior ministers was dizzying. Tim Loughton, a Tory Education minister in the Coalition at the time of the 2013 application process, said: [Ms Batmanghelidjh] thought she had a privilege fast track to the top of the list when it came to Government funding.if anyone raised any questions about exactly what she was using it for, she just went straight to the top.The charity received its first grant from the public sector 50,000 from the New Opportunities Fund in 2000.Yet just two canada goose outlet store quebec years later in 2002 the pattern of asking for public funds alongside dire warnings if the cash was not granted began.Kids Company submitted a request for 300,000 emergency funding to avoid insolvency It was granted despite civil servants raising concerns that charity a poor record of cost control and financial managementJust 12 months later Kids Company was canada goose vest outlet asking for another 500,000 in funding which would closureThe cash was agreed despite officials worries that the conditions of the 2002 emergency grant were complied with and that the payment simply defer any crisis.Kids Company came back begging for cheap canada goose more taxpayers money in 2008 asking the Department for Education for 4.5million every year avoid closing services and issuing redundanciesOfficials said they were concerned warned that the cash may prolong on government funding but agreed to hand over 12.7million over a three year period.By now Kids Company was sucking up a fifth canada goose outlet paypal of the cash held in the Department for Education Youth Sector Development Fund, which was meant to support canada goose outlet locations in toronto 43 similar organisations.The demands were getting larger. In 2012 the charity asked for 10million annually, again avoid closing services and issuing redundancies The request initially was in a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron.
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