Ministerial control threatens charitable status at Scottish colleges

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 19 June 2007

The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator is warning that Scotland's further and higher education colleges face the loss of their charitable status - and £50m in associated tax breaks - unless ministers give up control over them.

OSCR chief executive Jane Ryder told the Association of Scotland's Colleges conference in Dunblane last week that the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 forbids Scottish charities from having a constitution that gives ministers powers of direction or control. The constitutions of most colleges in Scotland incorporate the Further...

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