The trustees of City & Guilds London Institute have been accused of attempting to dodge accountability for a “catastrophic failure of governance” by stalling on the launch of an independent inquiry into the £166m sale of the vocational charity’s training and accreditation business last October. Members of the 148-year-old body voted overwhelmingly last month for the trustee board to trigger what would be the third investigation into how the foundation sold its operations to the private operator PeopleCert in October. However, members complained that the process then seemed to have stalled. The poll followed the Charity Commission opening a statutory inquiry in January , which was mirrored a day later by PeopleCert commissioning its own internal investigation into the deal. Neil Bates, an elected member of the City & Guilds council, which appoints and advises the trustees, said: “Why would they not be accountable for decisions made if everything was above board?…