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Kids Company public spend 'shocking'

Collapsed charity Kids Company received at least 拢46m of public money despite repeated concerns about how it was run, the National Audit Office has found.
There was a "consistent pattern" of the charity receiving grants after claiming it would close without them, it said.
Former bosses at the charity have denied it was financially mismanaged.
Head of charity umbrella group Children England, Kathy Evans, said the figures were "really shocking" and that Kids Company had been treated differently to her other members.
Labour MP Meg Hillier chairs the Public Accounts Committee which monitors government spending - she said the number of government interventions "should have rung alarm bells".

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