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Moves to stop bogus collectors

By Nathalie Thomas, Third Sector, 7 March 2007

The Cabinet Office is to arrange a meeting between the police, advertising regulators, trading officials and voluntary sector representatives to discuss how to control bogus charity collection companies.

Third Sector minister Ed Miliband revealed the Government's intention last week at a parliamentary debate initiated by Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson. Swinson said collection companies that misled the public into believing they had humanitarian aims or were registered charities cost the sector between £2.5m and £3m a year. But...

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