The disgraced children’s charity Kids Company is expected to close off all of its services today after it received an emergency “sustainability grant” from the taxpayer just last week. The Cabinet Office released the payment at the end of June to stop Kids Company – which is one of the largest Children’s charities in the country – going bankrupt. It was paid on the condition that serious reforms were made. On July 2nd BBC Newsnight revealed that the government was withholding a £3 million grant from the charity until the £90,000 chief executive Camilla Batmanghelidjh stepped down. The government demand followed a series of increasingly serious allegations made against the charity, which culminated with a police investigation into alleged sex abuse, which the BBC exposed on July 30th. Batmanghelidjh had announced she would step down. However, she e-mailed staff last week to say the government money would be used to
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