The programme, launched as part of the NCS’s ‘One Million Hours Doing Good’ initiative, will see headteachers given “menus” of NCS activities for 16- and 17-year-olds to take place over two to 10 days during the summer break.
The scheme will run on both local and national levels offering life skills activities around job-readiness, confidence building, re-forming friendships and building resilience to “the most vulnerable and marginalised young people around the country”, NCS said.
The programme is aimed to complement activities laid-on by schools and colleges to help young people transition back to life at sixth form and further education.
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