As local authority youth services have effectively collapsed in many parts of England, with funding reductions often explained as unavoidable in the context of austerity, central government resources have been made available for the extension of NCS.
NCS has had many vocal critics from the start. Plucked as an idea out of nowhere, with no acknowledgement of similar work on the "citizenship" front being done routinely by other youth services, it was condemned for being short-sighted and short-term - just a few weeks in the summer months for those at the end of compulsory schooling. Compared with so-called "traditional" youth work, it was hellishly expensive. NCS has, we should note, become more flexible, but its phenomenal costs remain.
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