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12 Dec 19
Joint chair of the charities SORP committee Nigel Davies makes a plea for help in co-developing the statement of recommended practice and making it the best it can be.
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19 Nov 19
Representatives from UK political parties have disagreed over whether to maintain aid spending at the current 0.7% of gross national income.
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13 Nov 19
Whichever party addresses the shortcomings of universal credit, it should commit to designing the system hand in hand with claimants, writes Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Iain Porter.
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7 Nov 19
Chancellor Sajid Javid and his shadow counterpart John McDonnell have outlined major fiscal promises to kickstart their parties’ election campaigns.
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3 Oct 19
The ambitious IFR4NPO initiative will offer the first-ever international financial reporting guidance for the non-profit sector, writes Ian Carruthers.
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25 Sep 19
Food bank use has risen where Universal Credit has been in operation for at least a year – and the five-week wait appears to be a key part of the problem, says The Trussell Trust’s Sumi...
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16 Sep 19
Rising global hunger, aid shortfalls and baby foods full of sugar - all in the Numbers Game from the September 2019 edition of Public Finance magazine.
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2 Sep 19
Dogged by scandals and a donations slump, clarity on operations and use of funds is vital if the charity sector is to win back public confidence. Rachel Willcox reports.
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29 Aug 19
Analysis by the Charity Commission for England and Wales has found that 135 out of a sample of 296 charities failed to meet its external scrutiny benchmark in their financial reporting.
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25 Jul 19
The appointment of Alok Sharma as the UK’s new international development secretary appears to have scotched uncertainty over the department’s future.
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21 Jun 19
The Scottish Government has been warned that it must show greater strategic leadership across the public sector if it is to achieve its digital ambitions.
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21 Jun 19
A comprehensive national strategy backed by proper funding and infrastructure is required to tackle the growing crisis of homelessness, according to a report from the Local Government Information...
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21 Jun 19
Concentrating UK aid on large middle-income countries risks reducing the focus on poverty and the government’s new “leaving no one behind” philosophy, a watchdog has said.
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18 Jun 19
The UK is to give Afghanistan £170m to help alleviate a “severe” humanitarian crisis caused by the worst drought in a decade that has left millions of people hungry.
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17 Jun 19
The UK’s largest charities paid audit fees of £72.3m in 2017-18, a rise of £10.2m in just four years, according to an online data service.
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14 Jun 19
Inter-American Development Bank funds efforts to ease Latin American migrant tensions, charities call for increased public health investment and criticism over delays to cladding removal after the...
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13 Jun 19
An additional £4.5m in government funding has been confirmed for a scheme that aims to improve the wellbeing of unpaid carers.
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28 May 19
Our health and social care services will suffer if the government does not invest in public health, says Cancer Research UK’s Alison Cox.
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21 May 19
The UK’s new international secretary Rory Stewart has got off to a good start but there is still much he can do to improve the department, says the ODI’s Simon Gill.
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20 May 19
The potential of the new Scottish National Investment Bank will be compromised if it is limited to funding only commercial activities, the Scottish Government has been warned.
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17 May 19
The government must look further and aim higher if it wants to end youth homelessness says Reform’s Aidan Shilson-Thomas.
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25 Apr 19
A record 1.6 million food bank parcels were given out in the UK last year, a charity has found.
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24 Apr 19
The Homelessness Reduction Act is being undermined by a “chronic” shortage of affordable housing, MPs have heard.
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15 Apr 19
Delays to the social care green paper are a result of the need for “greater consideration” of proposals, PF has heard.
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11 Apr 19
A worldwide initiative to kick fraud out of the charity sector was recognised at this year’s Government Counter Fraud Awards. Dominic Brady reports.