In an open letter to NCS leaders, Brendan O'Keefe, who established one of the first staff-led youth mutuals in England when Epic Community Interest Company (CIC) took on responsibility for services in Kensington and Chelsea in 2014, said the organisation running the NCS, the NCS Trust, should "open up more" and address the "rigidity" of its operating model.
The government's flagship youth volunteering scheme faced questions from members of the public accounts select committee earlier this month, after its report raised concerns regarding the programme's cost.
NCS has received £475m of public funding since 2014/15, but MPs argued its costs were higher than for comparable youth schemes, and that it was exceeding the £1,562 per participant spend implied in the autumn 2015 Spending Review by paying out £1,863 for each participant in 2016.
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