Voluntary Work: Young People
(asked on 21st July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many young people have (a) started, (b) completed and graduated from and (c) registered for the National Citizen Service since its inception.
The table below provides the most complete information on the number of young people who have registered for, begun and completed NCS. There was considerable national growth in the programme in 2015 – exact figures on 2015 NCS participation will be published in the independent evaluation in due course.
| Total registered | Total participants | Total completers |
2011 | 10,897 | 8,434 | 6,809 |
2012 | 30,987 | 26,003 | 21,360 |
2013 | 50,924 | 39,994 | 37,266 |
2014 | 74,559 | 57,789 | 52,413 |
The small number of participants for whom we recorded missing completion data have not been included in the above figures. Figures on participants and completers are available in the published independent evaluations of NCS.