The Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Act 2016 (the Act) gave the CCEW a new power, to issue official warnings to charities and trustees if there has been a breach of trust or duty, or other misconduct or mismanagement.
In Summer 2016 the CCEW published a consultation seeking views on draft guidance on their approach to using this new power. The key themes and summary of the CCEW’s responses were:
- the guidance needs to give greater clarity: the CCEW is replacing the draft guidance with more details practical and operational guidance
- the issuing of official warnings needs to be fair: the CCEW has responded with various changes
including giving 28 days’ notice of intention to issue a warning - concerns about publication of warnings: the CCEW will consider in each case if publication is appropriate; and where action is taken by trustees, will consider modifying or removing the warning notice.
This article features in our Charity Newsletter Spring 2017. To see the full version please click here.
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Updated 24 April 2017