Automatic disqualification rules will soon apply to charity senior management. Bethan Walsh reports.
- From 1 August 2018, new rules come into effect making the automatic disqualification rules that currently apply to charity trustees also apply to senior management positions in charities.
The current rules governing charities only disqualify certain people from acting as charity trustees and in this regard the rules currently only apply to trustee positions. A disqualified person cannot act as a charity trustee unless they have received a waiver from the Charity Commission. The reasons for a disqualification relate to bankruptcy and crimes involving dishonesty or deception.
A trustee is a person responsible for governing a charity and directing how it is managed and run. Collectively, they may be referred to as the trustees, the board, the management committee, governors, directors, or something else. It is the function that matters not the title. The people who have ultimate control of a charity will be the charity trustees regardless of the name they are given by the charity’s governing document.
