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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Patrick Butler Social policy editor

Watchdog’s Kids Company report was ‘one-sided’, but judge upholds key findings

Camila Batmanghelidjh
Camila Batmanghelidjh founded Kids Company in 1996. Photograph: Nick Cunard/Shutterstock

A watchdog report into Kids Company, the children’s charity set up by the late Camila Batmanghelidjh, was “irrational”, “unfair” and “one-sided” in key criticisms it made of the way the charity was managed, a court has ruled.

Nevertheless, although the Charity Commission admitted it made errors and would have to rewrite parts of its inquiry report, published in 2022, the judge refused to quash it, and upheld other criticisms the watchdog made of Kids Company.

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