Ms Karen Murphy:

There is an additional safeguard. Each company is a company limited by guarantee and has charitable status. As such it must have within its memorandum and articles of association that it is providing housing for vulnerable people or people in disadvantage or wording to that effect. To get approved status in the first place, the bodies must have that in their memorandums and articles of association, and having it in the memorandums and articles of association is what gives them their charitable status. It is an additional safeguard that exists already in charity law.