Camila Batmanghelidjh (Kids Company) has passed away

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/02/kids-company-charity-founder-camila-batmanghelidjh-dies-aged-61

Oh bless! She seemed a good woman.

I always thought she was treated far worse than she should have been. Her heart was in the right place.

Place2Be have some good stuff. Bit trans rights sometimes but generally their mh resources are pretty useful.

You think she faked her ill health, and now her death, to avoid a court case?

Are you OK?

All the posters on here who think they know better than a High Court judge 😔

RIP Camilla. You deserved so much better.

Absolute grifter and charlatan. I can’t say I will shed any tears.

It's interesting how the people defending her provide references from and the mud slingers ... don't.

And the problem is you can state something serious and insulting like this ^^ anonymously on this site and not have to prove or justify a word of it. Not like the High Court.

Sorry but it’s downright cowardly to say this about someone who has just died and not offer any accompanying explanation.

RIP and condolences to all family and friends.

but FYI - you can't libel the dead.

Yep. She was the victim of a massive smear campaign. I suspect the tory government and their buddies discredited her because she made them look bad. The worst she that was actually found is that her charity didn't keep as much money in reserves as it should have done because it spent the money on vulnerable kids. Most members of the public wouldn't view that as a terrible crime. Even that 'fact' is highly disputed.

What a vile thing to say. She clearly WAS ill last year, as she is dead now 'after a fairly lengthy illness.'

And as has been said, she was exonerated of ANY wrong doing.

R.I.P. Camila xxx

It looks like she died on her 61st birthday. How sad.

I was sorry to hear this news.

I watched Sky's Press Preview earlier. One of the reviewers remarked that he was sorry to say that, until today, he'd assumed that previous negative reports about Camila Batmanghelidih were true. It's only with the current coverage that he's realised she was exonerated of misconduct over Kids Company.

Several previous posters have made a similar point.

I think she was a remarkable woman who had children's interests at her heart.

An incredible talented leader and led through compassion and love for children. It was awful to see her work so easily dismantled and I hope that she found peace in the years after her terrible persecution by the authorities.
RIP Queen.

RIP Camila xxx

I hadn't realised that she was exonerated.
May she rest in peace.

Do we know what her illness was? They said she'd been ill for months.

Cultists will cult. It's like Saint Diana, you can't criticise her because Reasons. A lot went wrong at Kids Company and as CEO the buck stops etc.

I too hadn't realised she had been exonerated. I remember the media coverage very well and feeling so sad that such a charismatic figure had fallen from grace.

How sad that her exoneration didn't receive similar media attention. She must have suffered terribly having her reputation trashed in the way it was.

RiP Camila.

I am going to leave this article here:

https://thehumandivine.org/2018/08/16/was-there-a-conspiracy-against-kids-company/

It lays out an argument and questions the “coincidence” that CB and Kids Company were the target of aggressive reporting from journalists and politicians intimately involved with the Centre for Policy Studies.

The Centre for Policy Studies is an obscurely funded right-wing think tank and pressure group in the United Kingdom. Its goal is to promote coherent and practical policies based on its founding principles of: free markets, "small state," low tax, national independence, self determination and responsibility.

All the usual names pop up: Oliver Letwin, The Spectator, Dominic Cummings, Matt Hancock.

The Spectator and BBC’s Newsnight are also implicated.

I have no idea whether this article is true or not but I have always thought it odd how CB’s exoneration was suppressed by the media. It certainly contains some interesting theories.

I also remember things going wrong for CB when, having received funding directly from David Cameron’s government, she questioned the veracity and efficacy and the detail of the “Big Society” policy he promoted.

Personally, having had direct grass roots experience of the charitable sector, I think that there was prejudice plain and simple towards CB as a woman whose main focus was the care of, and love towards, children.

Shame on you.

Chrissakes, there are some utter morons on this thread. SHE WAS EXONERATED. RIP Camila.

We lived in Peckham during the early days of Kids Company. My children's infant school did some fundraising for them, and young people supported by Kids Company would come and speak at assemblies. I've never forgotten the stories. Camila worked with the most troubled young people in a way the statutory agencies could not. The boy who spoke about how she met with him in a park for weeks because he was too suspicious of all agencies to go into the building. The meal they put on every day for kids who were hungry - no judgement, no requirement to explain what was happening at home.

I agree with @TartanTerrier ".....How sad that her exoneration didn't receive similar media attention. She must have suffered terribly having her reputation trashed in the way it was......"

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Except by the high court who found no evidence of wrongdoing

This.

Legal wrongdoing is very different to questionable practice. I think she was no heroine - she may have had good intentions but lacked competency. When you are being handed £45,000,000+ to help vulnerable children, intention and charisma are not enough to ensure you spend it wisely, with greatest effect. She was not the only incompetent- her board of trustees should have been checking and clearly were taking her word and carried along.
Reminds me of the PPE scandal without the dishonesty. Friend of the Tories, came up with a scheme, offered to help, asked for money, government tipped it in because they were desperate and struggling with the mess they had created, no investigation it was going someone who could do what she said she could do.
This government have wasted billions with their lack of rigour and willingness to hand the money freely to their cronies with no actual system of evaluation of product in place.
Something being legal does not mean it is right morally, ethically or that it is competent and effectively done.