Responsibilities

BBC presenter and editor Alan Yentob has been cross-examined by counsel for the Official Receiver, as the Insolvency Service seeks to disqualify him as a director, following the collapse of Kids Company. 

Again, the only reporter in court seems to be Steven Delahunty, for Third Sector. 

Lesley Anderson QC asked why the charity was “slogging so hard” for government funding all the time if, as Trustees had claimed, it had the support of many private donors ?

Mr Yentob said "We wanted to change the nature of the organisation ... and we believed it was the government’s responsibility [to fund the services], and if I may say so, so did many people in government.” 

He claimed that successive Prime Ministers including Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron, all believed the charity needed to be funded.

In his affidavit to the court, Mr Yentob says “These disqualification proceedings are a profound and unjust humiliation for the trustees who gave years of dedication and commitment to supporting the most vulnerable in our society”.