{"id":450,"date":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","slug":"city-guilds-london-institute-trustees-accused-of-stalling-inquiry-into-166m-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"City &amp; Guilds London Institute trustees accused of stalling inquiry into \u00a3166m sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The board of the vocational charity has shown a \u2018catastrophic failure of governance\u2019, according to a member of the group\u2019s council<\/p>\n<p>The trustees of City &amp; Guilds London Institute have been accused of attempting to dodge accountability for a \u201ccatastrophic failure of governance\u201d by stalling on the launch of an independent inquiry into the \u00a3166m sale of the vocational charity\u2019s training and accreditation business last October.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/09\/city-guilds-london-institute-trustees-accused-of-stalling-inquiry-into-166m-sale\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The board of the vocational charity has shown a \u2018catastrophic failure of governance\u2019, according to a member of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}