Regulatory shifts: developing sector participation in regulation for charities in England and Wales
- 1 December 2014
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Legal Studies
- Vol. 34 (4), 660-681
- https://doi.org/10.1111/lest.12036
Abstract
Cuts in the Charity Commission's budget have caused it to retrench in its regulatory activity and re-prioritise its core functions. As a consequence, the Commission has promoted greater trustee self-reliance and charity-sector provision of regulatory services. This paper analyses these regulatory developments alongside a broader analysis of self-regulation in the charity sector. This paper argues that while self-reliance and self-regulation offer opportunities to the charity sector to create nuanced, sector-sensitive regulation, they could also compromise the credibility and quality of charity regulation. This paper further argues that the charity sector needs to address as a matter of priority the drivers for regulatory reform, the purposes and priority of charity regulation, and the shift in the balance of power that results.Keywords
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