Charities regulator says post deemed ‘ideological dogma’ by Tory MPs was in line with the Barnado’s mission
Barnardo’s did not breach charity laws when it published a blogpost on its website discussing racial inequality and white privilege, inadvertently thrusting it to the centre of a culture wars row, the charities watchdog has ruled.
The Charity Commission, which regulates charities in England and Wales, in effect rejected a complaint made in December by the backbench Common Sense Group of Tory MPs and peers who had argued the blog was “ideological dogma” that put Barnardo’s in breach of its charitable purposes.