Consultation on a Risk and Proportionality Framework for the Commission’s services to charities

The Charity Commission is a modern, risk-based regulator. Our publication, The Charity Commission and Regulation, sets out our role and the principles by which we regulate. We want to explain how these principles are applied in practice in our day-to-day work.

In July 2008, we published a Risk and Proportionality Framework for the Commission’s compliance work. That framework sets out how we handle work where charities or their beneficiaries are at serious risk of damage or abuse. In this consultation, we are outlining our approach to risk-based regulation when we provide services to charities, including advice and support, giving legal consents and registering charities.

You can read about our consultation in two parts:

Part 1: Introduction to the consultation 

This provides the background to the consultation, explains what it is about, what we want from you and how you can give us your feedback.

The introduction also sets out some specific questions about what we would like to know. However, you are by no means limited to just answering these when responding to the consultation and we welcome your general views. As part of our commitment to equality, it also gives you the opportunity to comment on whether you think our framework could have an adverse impact on particular groups within the sector.

It is important that you read the introduction before giving us your feedback.

Part 2: A Risk and Proportionality Framework for the Commission’s services to charities

This provides the full details of an enhanced Risk and Proportionality Framework for the Commission’s services to charities. It explains how this framework has come about, how we regulate now, proposed enhancements to our current regulatory approach and what this will look like in the longer-term.

We invite and encourage everyone with an interest in this to give your views .

David Locke
Executive Director, Charity Services