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The Charity Commission’s two key strategic priorities for 2012–15 will be developing the self-reliance of the charity sector and its compliance and accountability. At the heart of its new strategy for improving self reliance is a commitment to promoting “self-service of information and transactions through the internet”, improving the accessibility and format of its guidance to clearly spell out what charities must do to be compliant. It will be developing a “partnership strategy” under which charities would be directed to sector bodies for support, so that the Commission is no longer seen as the first or only point of call for those who need tailored advice. The strategy reflects comments made by the Commission’s Chair, Dame Suzi Leather, at its Annual Public Meeting last autumn (see AP242), when she hinted that arts charities may soon be obliged to join umbrella bodies to access the one-to-one advice and support it currently gives to charitable organisations. She said that the move to transfer its information and advice role to umbrella bodies was part of a wider strategy to help the charitable sector become more self-reliant and enable charity trustees to take their own decisions wherever possible.