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MONITORING AND CONTROL OF CHARITIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES

01 January 1991

MONITORING AND CONTROL OF CHARITIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES
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BOOKS/PAMPHLETS , User Ref = P62589 , Acc Date = 08-Jun-88
Comptroller and Auditor General, National Audit Office
HMSO, May 1987 17pp, tables (380) RP62589A

Discusses the work of the Home Office, local government, the
Inland Revenue, the police and the Charity Commission. The
activities of one of the Commission's divisions was monitored
over a three week period, and a representative sample of
charities was used to test whether the information contained on
its register was accurate. Finds that the register is unreliable
and out of date, due in part to management inadequacies at the
Commission; that registration under the current law provides no
guarantee that a charity is properly run; that many charities
ignore the statutory requirements on the submission of annual
accounts; that Commission monitoring and control functions are
restricted by lack of staff resources and by a concentration on
information and advice activities; and that there has been little
effective progress towards the reduction in the number of small
charities called for in the Charities Act 1985. In view of the
size and growth rate of the charity sector there is an urgent
need for a reappraisal of the organisation and resourcing of the
monitoring system.

United Kingdom, voluntary sector

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