The board of the vocational charity has shown a ‘catastrophic failure of governance’, according to a member of the group’s council
The trustees of City & Guilds London Institute have been accused of attempting to dodge accountability for a “catastrophic failure of governance” by stalling on the launch of an independent inquiry into the £166m sale of the vocational charity’s training and accreditation business last October.
Members of the 148-year-old body voted overwhelmingly last month for the trustee board to trigger what would be the third investigation into how the foundation sold its operations to the private operator PeopleCert in October.
So the members voted overwhelmingly for a third inquiry, but the trustees are dragging their feet—sounds like they’ve got something to hide with that £166m sale to PeopleCert.
A ‘catastrophic failure of governance’ is strong language, but when you sell a 148-year-old charity’s core business for that much, you’d expect full transparency, not stalling.
I wonder if the trustees are worried this third inquiry might finally uncover who really benefited from the £166m deal with PeopleCert last October.
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It’s shocking that the board is blocking an investigation after the members spoke so clearly. If they have nothing to hide, why not just let the inquiry proceed?
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