Investigation: the government's funding of Kids Company

Urban Farm DB summary

An investigation published by the UK National Audit Office on 29 October 2015. The children's charity Kids Company received at least £46 million of public funding over fifteen years, £28 million of it from the Department for Education. In 2008 it took 20 per cent of the funding available under one programme, and in 2011 it received over twice the amount given to any other grant recipient. Officials raised sustainability concerns in six separate briefings between 2002 and 2015, yet funding continued outside competitive processes; the charity closed insolvent on 5 August 2015 and around 1,900 cases were passed to local authorities.

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• 46 million_gbp

  public funding total(kids company public funding)

  Policy

  region

  United Kingdom

  year

  2000-2015

  method

  at least £46m of public funding over fifteen years

• 28 million_gbp

  department for education share(kids company public funding)

  Policy

  region

  United Kingdom

  year

  2000-2015

  method

  portion of total public funding from the Department for Education

• 20 %

  share of available grant funding(kids company grant share)

  Policy

  region

  United Kingdom

  year

  2008

  method

  share of one grant programme's available funding taken by a single charity

• 1,900 cases

  cases transferred to local authorities(kids company closure)

  Social

  region

  United Kingdom

  year

  2015

  method

  cases passed to local authorities for review after the charity closed on 5 August 2015

Direction of conclusions

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• Policy and governanceContradicts