Trustees must act to ensure the children and vulnerable beneficiaries in their charity's care are kept safe from harm, say Susan Daniels and Sir Christopher Kelly

John Whatmore, whose experience in the chair has included a local authority, housing associations and industrial organisations, argues that it is the distance between trustees and senior managers that prevents...

Philip Kirkpatrick and Neil Robertson offer their perspective on a charity whose problems are not mere misunderstandings and minor failures of governance

When a trustee of three charities accustomed to the ‘hands-off' role of a voluntary trustee becomes a non-executive director of a company, it came as something of a culture shock.