Commission to publish wider range of investigation reports

By Paul Jump, Third Sector, 2 July 2008

The Charity Commission has decided to start publishing information about investigations that do not justify formal inquiry reports but are on subjects of public interest or contain lessons for other charities.

Many of the new 'regulatory case reports' will cover cases that would have been the subject of formal inquiries before the commission's 2005 decision to open fewer, more focused inquiries. The number of inquiry reports has fallen from 79 in 2005 to 39 last year. The decision has been welcomed...