The government has an old-fashioned view of charity – but the charities don’t finish enough to change thatIt has been a tough couple of years for charities. They’ve faced unprecedented scrutiny in the wake of the collapse of Kids Company. And government has clamped down on their ability to speak truth to power,including banning them from using government funding to push for policy change .
It is in this context that charities will find worrying the revelations, as detailed in our news pages, and that the Charity Commission sought contact with the Institute for Economic Affairs,which has long argued for these kinds of restrictions .
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Source: theguardian.com