Category Archives: Financial Times

We have abandoned boys to a surreal and terrifying landscape where gang life offers protection A former gangster was returning home after dropping off his daughter at a play date. Suddenly he stiffened. Ahead, three boys in tracksuits and gloves — “Gloves mean a gun,” he explained — bounced up and down outside a friedContinue reading “Teenagers are dying from our failure to confront London violence”

They Trustees share the same legal obligations as company directors, writes Harriet Sergeant. Whose job is it to regulate the angels? When Kids Company, which helped deprived inner-city children, imploded last year, one of a slew of recent scandals in the charity sector, it became clear that none of the regulatory bodies — the government,Continue reading “Charity trustees should know when things are going wrong”