David Cameron and top politicians overruled civil servants six times to keep charity afloat, auditors find
Labour and Conservative ministers brushed aside civil servants’ concerns about Kids Company’s finances on six occasions to push through government grants to the charity totalling at least £42m over 15 years, official auditors have found.
A National Audit Office (NAO) report indicates that David Cameron, Michael Gove, Ed Balls and David Blunkett intervened to support Kids Company between 2002 and 2015, in some cases to prevent it from becoming insolvent, and often after being directly lobbied by the charity itself.
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