Kevin Carey

Kevin Carey is the chair of disability charity RNIB.

 

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Civil society leaders have started the new decade and the run-up to a general election by sending out mixed messages to our political masters.

Governance expert Dorothy Dalton has stormed into the debate over whether trustees should sit on unitary boards alongside the executive and be paid for their work.

Is the time right for paid trustees and unitary boards? Money is short. Charities labour to make ends meet. Trustees struggle with the dilemma of cutting core costs or axing frontline services.

RNIB chair Kevin Carey is eliciting support from charities for a new model of charity self-regulation that focuses on performance instead of process.

The fact that even if charities have paid staff they are governed by volunteers is a crucial principle of what charities are all about, which we abandon at our peril.

» Paid trustees and unitary boards are wholly inappropriate

The existing model of charity governance that gives non-executive trustee boards authority over executive staff is bust and cannot be sustained, the chair of RNIB told an audience of charity chief executives...

This is the full text of RNIB chair Kevin Carey's speech to the Acevo annual conference on Thursday 5 November 2009.

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