30 May 2025- Published by the Third sector
Regulator admits it made ‘important errors’ in Kids Company report
The Charity Commission has acknowledged it made “important errors” in its report into the now-defunct charity Kids Company after a judicial review ruled parts of the report were “irrational” and “extremely unfair”.
The regulator’s inquiry report was published in 2022 and concluded Kids Company, which closed in 2015, operated a “high-risk business model”.
Representatives of the charity led by Michael-Karim Kerman, its former clinical director, challenged the regulator’s findings in a judicial review at the High Court in March.
In a verdict handed down today, Justice Sheldon upheld two aspects of the challenge but rejected the remainder
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A spokesperson for the Charity Commission said: “While the court has dismissed the challenge on all but two grounds, and is clear that the overall findings of our report were not ‘irrational’, we acknowledge its finding that we made important errors in relation to two paragraphs of the report and will act to remedy this.”
The judgment upheld the commission’s finding of financial mismanagement at Kids Company, which was based on “ample evidence”, the regulator said.
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