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Confusion over leisure trust job

By Paul Jump, Third Sector, 30 April 2008

The Charity Commission has ticked off a Yorkshire leisure trust for describing its chief executive's post as "politically restricted" in a job advert.

Political restrictions bar the incumbent from holding political office or supporting a particular political viewpoint in a public forum, and usually apply to council staff in senior or sensitive posts, such as those in media relations. Charity jobs cannot be politically restricted. Kirklees Active Leisure, which had an income of...

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