Private services provider Serco, which led a consortium of youth organisations that delivered services in nearly a third of all NCS regions, has confirmed that it has not reapplied to deliver NCS over the next three-year bidding period covering 2015 to 2018.
The decision means Serco will end its involvement in the scheme in September 2015, after next year's summer NCS schemes have ended.
The outsourcing firm has not given a reason for its decision to withdraw from the programme.
The NCS Network – made up of Serco, UK Youth, Catch22, National Youth Agency (NYA) and vInspired – was appointed for six of the available 19 regional contracts to deliver NCS in 2013 and 2014 by the Cabinet Office in September 2012.
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