The committee's Duty of Care report noted a series of failures by the Ministry of Defence in its duty of care to servicemen and women under 18. The report follows the deaths of several young recruits at Deepcut barracks in Surrey.
Recommendations include Criminal Records Bureau checks on all instructors working with 16- to 18-year-olds and allowing care-leavers to access their social workers until they turn 21.
The committee also suggested that cadet forces could work with the armed forces to improve their handling of under-18s.
But cadet groups played down their role. Brigadier Ian McGill, general secretary of the Army Cadet Force Association, said: "Cadets are not part of the Army and are not a recruitment tool."
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