Late filing of accounts is the sector's drink-driving, says Sam Younger - Third Sector

Late filing of accounts is the sector's drink-driving, says Sam Younger - Third Sector: "Charity Commission chief executive says it should be regarded as unacceptable

The late filing of charity accounts should be seen as the voluntary sector’s equivalent of drink-driving, according to Sam Younger, chief executive of the Charity Commission.

Speaking last night at a meeting of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, Younger said: 'I would like to see late filing of documents among charities becoming the sector equivalent of drink-driving: something society may have regarded as excusable in the past, but which is in fact potentially hugely damaging."