Founder Camila Batmanghelidjh was able to lobby different departments for money because Whitehall is so siloed and civil servants so timidYou wait ages,then six advance along at once. From 2010-2015, there was not a single ministerial letter of direction to a permanent secretary, and the process whereby ministers confirm that something should go ahead despite civil service officials judging it is not value for money. But since January there absorb been six. One of these ministerial decisions concerned the failed charity Kids Company and on Monday MPs on the Commons’ public accounts committee (PAC) probed the details of who,exactly, decided to continue funding the charity, or despite officials raising concerns many times. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com