Government cuts hit Kids Company and Camila Batmanghelidjh is stepping down

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Does anyone know anymore about this? I've only read the one article.

What really worries me is what is going to happen in relation to the children they were undoubtedly helping.

I wouldn't put "undoubted" there. It's not at all clear either who they were giving service to, or the efficacy of that service.

The R4 interview is unhinged. She, personally, saved two people from suicide yesterday alone.

She's just accused the BBC of paying children to give fake interviews.

Wasn't it the Telegraph she was accusing?

I'm not surprised the vulnerable kids are devastated at its passing if they were getting £30 a week, in cash, with no accountability.

Wasn't it the Telegraph she was accusing?

No. Humphries played the clip, and she that started on about people paying for interviews. When he called her on it she switched tack to the Telegraph, because he cut that off as well. She was also getting ready to call the interview subject a liar and/or mentally ill, but didn't get a chance (it does seem remarkable that CB knows the history and background of every child in an organisation that deals with tens of thousands of clients: it's as through a university's VC were to know all the students on campus).

It worked well, as the substance of the clip - that the money handed out was spent on drugs - was never discussed.

Sorry, No should be Only incidentally.

I don't think she was saying she knew the background to the particular child, but she was trying to discredit the evidence.

Sorry but I can't see any circumstances when giving a vulnerable child the means to buy drugs could be a good thing.

I don't think she was saying she knew the background to the particular child, but she was trying to discredit the evidence.

OK, at best she was saying that the interviewer didn't either. But whatever, the intent was discredit the interview and/or interviewer without having to engage with its contents. Essentially everything's ad hominem, it's all about dark motives and dishonest dealings, rather than a frank accounting of what happened to a lot of money.

Having Googled ad hominem I agree!

Yes - she's doing the old civil service trick known as "playing the man but not the ball" - in that you discredit the messenger because you know his message is genuine and you can't refute it.

Hi everyone - we're just going to pop this over to In the News with the OP's permission.