A drug charity that was given £60 million a year of taxpayer funding has collapsed following concerns about its weak financial controls.
The Lifeline Project ran drug and alcohol centres across the country treating 80,000 people. Its failure follows the collapse of Kids Company two years ago and highlights concerns about the ability of charities to run public services.
Lifeline was once led by the Rev Paul Flowers, the disgraced former Methodist minister who was chairman of the Co-op bank when his own drug use was exposed in 2014.
