Ms Madeleine Delaney:

Actually, the code has proved to be a very valuable resource and tool for a lot of charities across the country. Deputy Boland has been involved in charities and I have been involved in them before I took up this role. It is voluntary. We are trying to encourage people to say it is not about compliance with the code, it is about living through the code. We plan to do more work on it next year to make it more accessible for people so that they understand, but it is voluntary. We can only encourage and ask people to adopt it as a tool to work with. It is not a form of compliance. It is a tool that they should be working with. We would have expected that the charity trustees of the Peter McVerry Trust, who were declaring compliance with it, would have actually been aware of its contents and meeting its requirements. I do not think it is unreasonable to say that we would rely on that assurance and on the face of it in most cases, unless there is something to suggest the opposite.