National Citizen Service Trust

(asked on 6th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 July 2018 to Question 163143 on National Citizen Service Trust, how many workshops were delivered to young people during Summer 2018 in collaboration with the Parliament Education Service; where those workshops were held; how many people attended those workshops; and whether there are plans for similar workshops in the future.


Answered by
Tracey Crouch Portrait
Tracey Crouch
This question was answered on 11th September 2018

Around 85% of NCS programmes this year include activities with an explicit focus on political and democratic engagement. The Parliament Education Service (PES) are just one of the partners who help to deliver this content, but they alone reached 11,000 young people across the country this Summer (data is not held centrally on the locations of these workshops). Furthermore, the NCS Trust Extension Team is also working with Bite the Ballot to support NCS graduates to engage with National Democracy Week in 2019.

The NCS Trust are in the process of revamping programme quality and planning frameworks, which will set an expectation that all NCS programmes will feature sessions designed to improve political and democratic outcomes (as per the requirement in the NCS Royal Charter). Specialist partners such as PES and Bite the Ballot will be invited to help develop the related guidance.

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