In today's news, Dawn Austwick highlights an endemic problem with the sector's capitalisation; the vetting and barring scheme sustains another setback, and there is another development in the drama that is GuideStar.
Dawn Austwick, chief executive of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, has described as "shocking" the role that funders play in encouraging charities to have weak balance sheets.
Charities delivering public services are struggling to deal with the data security requirements being imposed on them by government, according to leading charity IT chiefs.
The GuideStar public website, which was set up with £2.9m of public money in 2004, may soon cease to be free if its new private sector owner deems it uneconomical to support.
The Rainbow Charity for Children with Autism has secured loans and grants totalling £4.38m to renovate a 19th century property in Wandsworth into an independent special needs day school for up to 60 autistic children.
Community improvement charity Groundwork UK plans to reduce its staff numbers as part of a restructuring process in anticipation of a reduction in government funding.
The charity sector is "massively behind" the private sector in terms of having IT representation at board level, according to Andrew Brenson, head of IT at Save the Children.
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They said it:
"If the Public Services (Social Enterprise and Social Value) Bill proceeds it could become one of the most important pieces of legislation for our sector in a generation"
Source: Peter Holbrook, chief executive of the Social Enterprise Coalition
