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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Simon Goodley

City & Guilds London Institute trustees accused of stalling inquiry into £166m sale

An apprentice using a wood saw on a construction site
The charity branch of City & Guilds provides funding to people in need of vocational training. Photograph: Andrew Sparkes/Alamy

The trustees of City & Guilds London Institute have been accused of attempting to dodge accountability for a “catastrophic failure of governance” by stalling on the launch of an independent inquiry into the £166m sale of the vocational charity’s training and accreditation business last October.

Members of the 148-year-old body voted overwhelmingly last month for the trustee board to trigger what would be the third investigation into how the foundation sold its operations to the private operator PeopleCert in October.

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