Following an investigation into the collapse of Kids Company, the Insolvency Service said it wants the charity's former directors - including former BBC creative director Alan Yentob - disqualified from running or controlling companies for up to six years.
Although Camila Batmanghelidjh, Kids Company's founder and former chief executive, was not officially a director when the charity imploded, the Insolvency Service intends to argue in court that she was a de facto director and should also be disqualified.
The other former directors of Keeping Kids Company, as it was renamed during its collapse, the government is seeking to ban from directorships are: Sunetra Devi Atkinson; Erica Jane Bolton; Richard Gordon Handover; Vincent Gerald O'Brien; Francesca Mary Robinson; Jane Tyler; and Andrew Webster.
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