Kids Company paid the London School of Economics £40,000 for a report that described it in glowing terms and made the case for more government funding within months of ministers raising the alarm about the charity.
The study, which was often cited by the failed children’s charity as independent evidence that it was a well-run and successful organisation, heaped praise on Kids Company and its founder, Camila Batmanghelidjh. It described the charity’s work as an “exemplary model of psychosocial scaffolding”.
The report, Kids Company: a diagnosis of the organisation and its interventions, opened with a tribute to Ms Batmanghelidjh by the author, Sandra Jovchelovitch, director of LSE’s social and cultural psychology programme.
She wrote: “I met Camila Batmanghelidjh in 2007 and was immediately struck