The Charity Commission is to begin an investigation into Oxfam's handling of a sex scandal in which staff hired prostitutes in Haiti in 2011. The watchdog has concerns the charity may not have "full and frankly disclosed material details".
It comes after Oxfam's deputy chief executive Penny Lawrence quit over the charity's response to the revelations. And a whistleblower said an Oxfam aid worker was accused of coercing a woman to have sex "in exchange for aid".
Whistleblower Helen Evans, who worked as Oxfam's global head of safeguarding between 2012 and 2015, made the claim in an interview on Channel 4.
Ms Evans, now a Labour councillor in Oxford, also said in a tweet that in the space of one month she had received three allegations of child abuse in Oxfam shops.
In the same month she received claims of sexual exploitation against aid beneficiaries, alongside other overseas allegations. She said she "took her concerns" to the charity's trustees and was told that management would conduct a "strategic review".
