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| Kids Company's Camila Batmanghelidjh to step down | Kids Company's Camila Batmanghelidjh to step down |
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| The chief executive of a charity whose government funding has been withheld over concerns about its ability to manage itself is to step down. | The chief executive of a charity whose government funding has been withheld over concerns about its ability to manage itself is to step down. |
| Kids Company had been told by government officials it would not get £3m of funding unless its leader Camila Batmanghelidjh was replaced. | Kids Company had been told by government officials it would not get £3m of funding unless its leader Camila Batmanghelidjh was replaced. |
| Ms Batmanghelidjh told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she had always planned to step down in her 20th year in 2016. | Ms Batmanghelidjh told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she had always planned to step down in her 20th year in 2016. |
| She denied the charity had been mismanaged. | She denied the charity had been mismanaged. |
| Ms Batmanghelidjh said she would stay on at the charity in a clinical role. | Ms Batmanghelidjh said she would stay on at the charity in a clinical role. |
| 'Always the plan' | |
| She told the Today programme: "What I was always going to do… As a founder I think it is very important to step down and hand an organisation over for other people to run it. | |
| "I was always planning to do that in the 20th year, which would have been next year. | |
| That was always my plan. We were going to appoint a chief executive to take over the role because that's the right thing to do." | |
| The charity, which started in south London and supports deprived young people and their families, is one of the most high-profile in Britain and regularly hosts leading politicians. | |
| It is synonymous with its charismatic leader and founder Ms Batmanghelidjh. | |
| It relies heavily on public funding; in the last set of published accounts, for 2013, the government provided £4m, about one fifth of its annual £20m funding. | |
| The Cabinet Office has concerns about the charity's ability to run itself, a collaboration between BBC Newsnight and Buzzfeed has learned. | |
| Ms Batmanghelidjh said claims that the charity was being mismanaged were a "red herring" to avoid the "real issues" - that the government was not protecting people "robustly". | |
| She said: "This is briefing to avoid the real issues... I've repeatedly challenged various governments on the fact they're not protecting children robustly. | |
| "It so happens that the type of briefing they're now delivering is one in which they're trying to discredit me to weaken my argument." |