Giving evidence to a House of Lords select committee inquiry, the chief executive of the largest provider of NCS places, revealed that a three-week programme is being trialled - a week shorter than usual.
At a hearing of the House of Lords citizenship and engagement committee, Oliver Lee, chief executive of NCS provider The Challenge, revealed that his organisation has been testing a shortened programme for 10,000 of its places this summer on behalf of the NCS Trust, which runs the scheme.
The move follows concerns raised by a House of Commons public accounts select committee report in March that the scheme's budget of £1.26bn up to 2020 "may no longer be justifiable" unless it is able to cut costs.
"We ran 10,000 of our places this summer as a pilot on behalf of the NCS Trust in a compressed model seeking similar outcomes but over broadly speaking a three-week rather than a four-week programme. That of course would derive savings," said Lee.
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