to think that if we drop the government funding to Kids Company we should do the same with the £32m to Oxfam?

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There was absolute uproar about Kids Company not keeping a good hold on their accounts and giving ad hoc pocket money to needy kids - they were shut down and lost all funding

Oxfam - covering up sexual exploitation, surprising expenses policies (renting luxury villas) and not reporting correctly to the charities commission

I wonder if we'all drop the funding to Oxfam like we did to Kids Company?

I haven't even heard it muted

And just to reiterate before I actually get my work done, defunding Oxfam is important for charities everywhere and the people they are helping

You simply cannot allow the charitable sector to have cultures that are not putting the needs of their chosen work first. Oxfam needs a reset and as another poster said, they may get refunded in the future if they can demonstrate that that is what they are doing. It's a GOOD thing to defund a charity that is not meeting the requirements and definitions of charitable work.

We don't need charities to function

The people in the third world reliant on aid might see that a bit differently. Actually, even before we get to them there are lots of people right here in the UK using food banks to get by every week might have something to say about it.

I don't know, some people might even argue that providing aid for the vulnerable is a more worthwhile use of public money than funding war. Each to their own I suppose.

I agree that is a difficulty to navigate Reggae but that's hardly the case with Roland Van Hauwermeiren nor, I suspect, with the other employees who were 'let go/resigned'.

Oh no of course, you are right. It was just something we were discussing at work today (charity sector) - the difficulty of operating in countries with not just different laws, but different cultures and values around women/children.

What’s happened at Oxfam is disgusting, and unequivocally wrong. I just hope it’s not used to further this government’s foreign aid - or lack of it - agenda.

People reliant on charities for aid should be confident that the aid is being given freely without an expectation of some kind of sexual quid pro quo.

Taxpayers or any others funding charities should be confident that monies given to charities are properly managed and not wasted on anything unnecessary, that those most in need are the primary beneficiaries, that the money raised is spent wisely and is accounted for, that there is no insidious culture within any charity whereby aid is given on the basis of sexual favours, that funds are not used for sex parties, and that sexual abuse of aid recipients, volunteers or employees is not routinely ignored or covered up.

If charities cannot or will not adhere to that then they should not be in receipt of any funding.

Oxfam have been found to be very wanting.

They should be forced to sort that out, and be transparent and accountable for demonstrating how it has been sorted out now and for the future.
Kids Company were bust. They were looking for bail outs for an unsustainable business plan. They were unrepentant, unco-operative, and the very nature of the activities that the finding was for was found to be flawed (giving cash to young people, etc).

With Oxfam they have managed their staff badly, and not dealt well with some situations which were outside their raisin d'etre.

The big aid agencies have a unique experience in immediate disaster relief. They have well and truly blotted their copybook, with some despicable employees. But that is not the same as KC at all.

ThIs isn’t just about a few bad apples , this is about a charity that has the culture not to challenge this. To have employees renting luxury villas and inflated salaries. The executive board were told in 2015 and did nothing. I’m sure there are more stories to come out. All money should be stopped and the organisation shut down.

rubbish teenaferomance