The Three Pillars of Independence

The Directory for Social Change’s (DSC) new toolkit helps monitor and guard against encroachment on the Charity Commission’s independent decision-making.

DSC developed the toolkit following “regular and widely-held concerns about the party-political bias of the previous Charity Commission chair William Shawcross, and the subsequent appointment of Conservative peer Baroness Stowell to replace him – against the unanimous advice of a parliamentary scrutiny committee and leading charities”.

The Three Pillars of Independence toolkit does this by looking at three areas for independence: party politics, populism and press.