Yesterday, Miles Goslett revealed on Coffee House how the beleaguered charity Kids Company was dealing with the allegations against it. His cache of emails revealed that it was using the £3 million grant it had received from government to pay staff, a direct violation of the terms of the donation.
This evening, the charity has shut its services. In a statement, Kids Company boss Camila Batmanghelidjh and the charity’s trustees said:
‘We have been forced to do so because collectively, despite the extraordinary efforts of Camila and her team, some truly enlightened philanthropists and the government, we have not been able to raise enough money to meet the ongoing costs and liabilities. The recent negative press coverage has been particularly damaging.’
It was in the Spectator that problems with the well-known and well-connected charity first surfaced. Our point, then, wasn’t that the charity was awful and should close – just that there were a lot of troubling questions that had gone unanswered because so many (in politics and the media) were so taken by Kids Company that proper scrutiny was not applied.
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