Committee to take evidence from Sir Stuart Etherington and academics

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• Joint Committee on the Draft Protection of Charities Bill

The new Joint Committee on the draft Protection of Charities Bill will next week take evidence from Sir Stuart Etherington, CEO of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. The Committee will then hear from academics from Liverpool and Sheffield Hallam University.

Witnesses

At 2:15pm:     

• Sir Stuart Etherington, CEO, National Council for Voluntary Organisations

At 3:00pm:

• Professor Debra Morris, School of Law and Social Justice Liverpool University
• Professor Gareth Morgan, Professor of Charity Studies, Sheffield Hallam University

Focus

The session with Sir Stuart Etherington will focus on the main regulatory issues in the charity sector and on whether the powers of the Charity Commission are appropriate to deal with them. It will also look at whether he supports provisions in the draft Bill to give the Commission the power to wind up charities and how effective the Commission is as a regulator.

In the second session the Committee will ask the academics whether the draft Bill addresses the problems that they have previously identified with the charity sector and whether it is likely to fulfil its policy objectives.

Further information

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