The Times criticises political correctness of charity review
Howard Lake | 26 September 2002 | News
The Times in its leader column today is not impressed with the new “modish classifications” for charity registration proposed in the Strategy Unit’s review of charity legislation.
While The Times welcomes the modernisation of charity, it is not convinced that the ten new classifications for charity eligibility are the solution. “The scheme risks replacing a tried and tested set of conundrums with new and time-consuming enigmas,” it argues. The newspaper believes that the successors to the original four classifications are “are vague, subjective-sounding classifications (which communities? whose rights?).” Only lawyers will benefit, it believes: “where red tape is supposedly diminished, it will be replaced by pink ribbon.”
Read “Charitable act” at The Times.
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