to think Camila Batmanghelidjh must be lying when she says she has done nothing wrong in her spending of Kid's Company Charity Funding?

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She is like Jimmy Saville in that what she has been doing has been under all of all our noses and we have refused to speak up about it or believe it.

It is not just the luvvies who have been up close and personal with her- involved with the charity and CB at a very close level, some even Trustees. It is also the employees and the parents of children, the children themselves, the volunteers. We are not talking about a hidden mis-use of funding. We are talking aout a whole culture of open waste and self-indulgence.

I know it is from The Daily Mail but it is actually an interview with het.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3199527/My-heart-clear-says-Kids-Company-boss-Batmanghelidjh-admits-charity-paid-school-fees-employees-children-denies-wrongdoing.html

£5000 a month rent on an Art Deco House with private swimming pool - which houses a member of staff, and the swimming pool is used by CB but hot by any children- they are 'not allowed' (her words)

£40,000 chauffeur- now a specialist worker (according to CB). also has private school and therapist funding for his 2 children.

Staff( how many?) have their children sent to private schools because the job is stressful and it is part of a 'staff well-being package'

The Chauffeur's sister is also employed - now as a 'brilliant accountant', last summer as 'the woman who does my sewing' (mind you that would be a full-time job in itself, but it does imply the charity pays for those vile outfits much as I suspected)

25 young people given £769,000 a year funding - £31,000 a year each, to do nothing. They are CB's specially selected young people- many of whom have received funding for many years. She describes them as 'like a family, hanging round the house'. She deals with their funding herself.

Yet STILL CB complains staff should not have spoken up about any of this and implies those who have will suffer for it.

In my view this woman and her behaviours are corrupt, dishonest and immoral.

Are my views unreasonable? I feel this could be jus the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is yet to emerge and prosecutions will be very likely.

I think there should be a down- to the -bone, in-depth investigation of every aspect of the work of this charity and of CB. Not simply any concerns that have now been raised but a complete trawl of the spending, the practices and the behaviours of CB herself.

From what I have read, many of the KC salaried staff - keyworkers etc - were ex-'clients' of KC.

There's a link on one of these threads to CB stating that she doesn't worry about qualifications/experience too much, just the 'capacity to love'.

Looks like she just put her favourites on the payroll.

From what I have read, many of the KC salaried staff - keyworkers etc - were ex-'clients' of KC.

So either they had obtained qualifications, in which case the qualifications would be success stories in their own right, or they hadn't, in which case you're left asking why unqualified and untrained staff were doing social work funded by the government that, had a direct government employee done the same thing, would be wildly improper.

she doesn't worry about qualifications

How convenient. That also means the people aren't regulated by a professional body, too.

As someone with an NVQ 3 in care, albeit a relatively humble qualification, I'd say she hasn't got the most basic grasp of social care.

I've met incompetent people many 'a time but she takes it to a different level altogether.

She uses her persona: massively overweight, foreign, sexually ambiguity ,mad costumes blah blah, to fool the daft feckers who willingly line her pockets.

Have seen this on a smaller scale . I will name change for that one.

Well, I was paraphrasing, but that was the gist of it.

I'm sure some of the staff were professionally qualified but her chauffeur, for example, was described by KC as a keyworker when she was asked to justify his £40,000 salary.

Was he running up her frocks as well?

I think the degrees are real. I'm sure Warwick would have put out a disclaimer if she were making it up. But she's not currently registered with any professional counselling/therapy organisations according to a friend who's a psychotherapist.

www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw136421/Camila-Batmanghelidjh?LinkID=mp90654&role=sit&rNo=0

Ah, was high-risk caseworker, which is why he needed the car apparently. His sister in law is her seamstress/accountant.

However, I'm sure many of the articles are putting their own spin on things so who knows? Which is why I really hope any enquiry is a thorough one.

walt

Why can't she use a computer or a keyboard? That claim makes no sense.

quite, the signs were there.

A quote from one of the women helped (in the guardian article)
When I was 17, I won an award for student of the year in south London because I’d got four As at AS level, and it was Camila from Kids Company who presented me with it. She pulled me aside at the event, gave me her card and said I could get in touch with her. I got a Kids Company key worker, who I saw every week or couple of weeks.
So this woman did have problems apparently - left home in sixth form etc BUT had got a 'student of the year award' BEFORE KC got involved ...why would CB think someone like this needed help?

Actually what I don't get is Kingston Smith okaying all this stuff as business expenses. My (tiny, local) accountant lets me get away with nothing (quite rightly).

Although I guess you can put anyone through as employees. Even seamstresses. Really, the trustees are to blame

I picked up on that too Unlucky. I suspect CB marked her down as someone they could wheel out as a success story with minimal input.

The sad thing is, she says she lived in a hostel for girls and they helped her to move out to her own flat. What about the other girls there who weren't lucky enough to catch CB's eye and find her favour. How long did they languish in a hostel? They might not have been so academically gifted but were more modest possibilities lost to them because KC was gobbling up funding and cherry picking cases? There are very, very many unseen victims to this.

That picture says it all.

Whats the symbolism of the decapitated horse?

I thought they did that with donkeys

Are these 'psychotherapists', including CB, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council?

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That picture says it all.

It would take an Umberto Eco essay, with footnotes and a quick edit provided by Roland Barthes, to unpack that painting. The fake potentate style. The badly painted hands. The orientalism. The noble savage. The circular form. The choice of colours. The expression. It's the face that launched a thousand MA dissertations, I tell you.

Actually, I can't read. I mixed up physiotherapist with psychotherapist. Anyone can set up as a psychotherapist.

Pneum, I thought the artist had seen through her.

I thought the artist had seen through her.

I think that's fairly obvious. But the way he did it, without her walking out of the sitting or vetoing the final painting, is fascinating. He clearly played to her wildly over-sized ego and vanity. You can imagine the discussion: the robes? Too much? No of course not (muted chortle).

If someone painted me looking that self-absorbed I'd be mortified.

If someone painted me looking that self-absorbed I'd be mortified.

If you were really that self-absorbed you would see it as flattering.

Which is rather the point, I think.

I'm reminded of this. You can debate until the cows come home to which extent the artist was mocking or the viewers would see it as mocking, but you can be bloody certain the subject took it deadpan seriously as a portrait of his good heart.

This is the opening of one of her books. Her ego is staggering.
You will have to put it full screen to read it probably.