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The Charity Commission has published its updated ‘Statement of Strategic Intent’, which sets out its key objectives over the next five years. At the core of the strategy is the Commission’s newly formulated strategic purpose ‘to ensure charity can thrive and inspire trust so that people can improve lives and strengthen society’.
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The strategy re-emphasises the Commission’s desire to increase the public’s trust and confidence in the charity sector and to deal firmly with charities seen to be bringing the sector into disrepute: an expected priority in light of recent high-profile media coverage.
However, the strategy also makes clear that the Commission intends to occupy a greater space in policy and agenda-setting, pledging to ‘speak confidently and authoritatively across government, in Parliament and on charity matters.’ No doubt the sector would welcome the Commission taking a more active role in advocating for its interests, following consultation and dialogue with stakeholders.
To put its purpose into practice, the Commission has set five strategic objectives:
Whilst the Commission pledges to improve its processes and have a bigger voice in the debate on charity issues and policy, it acknowledges that in some areas its strategic ambition is greater than its current capacity to deliver. In a climate of continued budget cuts and political uncertainty, the strategy is clearly a call to central government for further funding and resourcing.
Does your charity have a safeguarding policy and serious incident reporting policy?
It is clear from the strategy that issues of safeguarding and reporting of serious incidents will remain high on the Commission’s agenda for some time. To help charities to deal with these issues, our Get Legal team has recently published two new template documents for small charities:
These template documents have been prepared by expert BWB lawyers and offer small charities a cost-effective alternative to engaging full legal services.
If you have any questions about the above, please contact:
This information is necessarily of a general nature and doesn’t constitute legal advice. This is not a substitute for formal legal advice, given in the context of full information under an engagement with Bates Wells.
All content on this page is correct as of October 8, 2018.