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The firm of "Britain's kindest plumber" is under investigation amid allegations the company faked stories about helping people and used those accounts to raise millions in donations

Prosecutions for offences such as speeding, truancy and TV licence fee non-payments are being dealt with behind closed doors. Read this and more in the Money blog - your place for consumer and personal finance news. Leave a comment on the stories were covering, or a Money Problem, below.

The Fundraising Regulator is toughening up guidance for fundraisers after a report found ‘performance-related pay models’ were increasing ‘poor behaviour’.

There will be challenges in ‘spotting bad actors’ using AI, Gerald Oppenheim warns

A spokesman for Gosh Charity said they are ‘taking this matter extremely seriously’.

The charity said it was deeply concerned by the allegations and does not condone any fundraising practices and behaviours that do not comply with high standards we expect.

Our reporter went undercover to expose the psychological tactics used by Great Ormond Street Hospital fundraisers

The community interest company committed nine breaches of the Code of Fundraising Practice, the Fundraising Regulator concludes

As the Fundraising Regulator reviews its code of practice we must consider the implications for decentralised and informal fundraising

The issue has been in the spotlight since an undercover investigation found apparent breaches of the Code of Fundraising Practice by fundraising companies