As a grizzled cynic, Ian Allsop has been around long enough to have heard it all before.

Royal National Institute of Blind People chairman, Kevin Carey, considers what a move towards a conversational culture rather than a reporting culture could do for the governance of charities.

A new Acevo taskforce that is drawing up proposals for a less stringent regulatory framework for the sector, has lined up a meeting with Charity Commission chair Dame Suzi Leather later this month to discuss its ideas.

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.