The Charity Commission has updated Reporting Serious Incidents: guidance for trustees.
The updated guidance reemphasises the areas of potential risk:
• Fraud and theft
• Significant loss due to other causes, such as fire, flood or storm damage
• Significant sums of money or other property donated to the charity from an unknown or unverified source
• The charity (including any individual staff, trustees or volunteers) has any known or alleged link to a proscribed organisation or to terrorist or other unlawful activity
• A person disqualified from acting as a trustee has been or is currently acting as a trustee of the charity
• The charity has no vetting procedure to ensure that a trustee or member of staff is eligible to act in the position he or she is being appointed to
• The charity does not have a policy for safeguarding its vulnerable beneficiaries (eg children and young people, people with disabilities and older people)
• Suspicions, allegations and incidents of abuse or mistreatment of vulnerable beneficiaries
• The charity has been subject to a criminal investigation, or an investigation by another regulator or agency; or sanctions have been imposed or concerns raised by another regulator or agency such as the Health and Safety Executive, the Care Quality Commission or Ofsted.
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