Issue(s)

Improving operations and programme delivery

Accountability and governance

Data quality and information management

Parent department 

Cabinet Office

Related documents

Follow-up on the Charity Commission (Jan 2015)

The regulatory effectiveness of the Charity Commission (Dec 2013)

The Cup Trust (Dec 2013)

We have published three reports on the Charity Commission in the past 14 months, which have prompted a radical internal overhaul of the Commission itself and new legislation to plug gaps we identified in the Commission's statutory powers.

Impact: Following NAO and Committee of Public Accounts criticisms in 2013, the Commission recruited a new CEO, revised its regulatory strategy, developed a new business model and launched a 3-year change programme. We are also credited in the foreword to the draft Protection of Charities Bill as identifying some of the legislative gaps the bill seeks to address. We gave evidence to the Joint Committee carrying out pre-legislative scrutiny of the bill. In its final report, which backs the bill's proposals, the committee made more than 50 references to that oral evidence and our reports on the Charity Commission.