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1130137

	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Youth Services
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer answer text <p>In August last year, my department published the Civil Society Strategy, in which the Government committed to review the guidance which sets out the statutory duty placed on local authorities to provide appropriate local youth services. An announcement will be made shortly. We expect that the review will provide greater clarity of Government’s expectations, including the value added by good youth work.</p>
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1110261

	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Youth Work
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer answer text <p>Government is committed to supporting youth workers to develop the skills they need to best support all young people. We have pledged to renew specific youth work qualifications that were due to expire in 2020, subject to a business case, and review the youth work training curriculum.</p>
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1110265

	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Youth Work
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer answer text <p>Government recognises that informal education can play a positive role in providing young people with the skills and resilience needed to succeed in life. We value opportunities for young people to build trusted relationships and to seek spaces where youth work can deliver high quality information, advice and guidance alongside positive activities that improve wellbeing and participation in their communities.</p><p>Government is committed to supporting youth workers to develop the skills they need to best support all young people. We have pledged to renew specific youth work qualifications that were due to expire in 2020, subject to a business case, and review the youth work training curriculum.</p>
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1110267

	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Extended Services
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer answer text <p>Government is committed to supporting young people to develop the skills and resilience needed to succeed in life.</p><p>We will be working closely with young people themselves, the youth sector, and other partners to develop a new Youth Charter, which will set out Government’s vision for young people over the next generation and beyond.</p>
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1109982

	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Young People
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer answer text <p>The maximum budget available for NCS was lowered in line with the lowered participation ceiling in the 2017 revised Spending Review settlement.</p>
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1109705

	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Young People
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer answer text <p>Not all participants are charged the maximum £50 sign up fee. Partial and full bursaries are available to ensure the programme is accessible to every young person who wants a place.</p>
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1107796

	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Youth Organisations: Finance
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer answer text <p>As part of the Civil Society Strategy, the Government committed to working with the National Lottery Community Fund to allocate £90 million from dormant bank accounts to a new, independent organisation to support young people furthest away from the labour market. Last week, the Youth Futures Foundation (YFF) launched and announced its Founding Chair, Joe Montgomery.</p><p> </p><p>Over the coming months, YFF will set out its strategy for using this funding to support the most disadvantaged young people into employment. Funding is supporting small, grassroot youth organisations working with young people Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) or at risk of becoming NEET, to build their organisational capacity and strengthen local partnerships.</p>
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1107804

	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Young People
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer answer text <p>The final participation and completion figures for the National Citizen Service programme in 2018 are undergoing compliance checks and will be published on gov.uk once they are finalised.</p><p> </p><p>Government targets have been agreed annually between the sponsoring Government Department and the NCS Trust in line with NCS Trust projections of demand. The table attached shows annual targets and participation ceilings.</p><p> </p><p>A maximum participation ceiling was allocated to NCS in the 2015 Spending Review to ensure that no young people were turned away from the programme. This was not a participation target. The ceiling was revised downwards in the 2017 revised Spending Review settlement.</p>
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1105882

	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Young People
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer answer text <p>Historically, the main source of non-public income generated for NCS has been the £50 sign-up fee. A small amount of income has occasionally come from other sources, such as corporate sponsorships.</p><p> </p><p>The forecasted circa £3 million income for the upcoming financial year will be generated from sign-up fees.</p>
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1092654

	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Young People
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer answer text <p>To date, over 500,000 young people have taken part in the NCS programme. The most recently published evaluation has found that 82% of young people felt more positive about people from different backgrounds, and participants are more likely to use their time to help others after NCS<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>. Marketing is a key recruitment driver for NCS, ensuring that more young people across the country benefit from the programme.</p><p> </p><p>The brand refresh is one part of the overall marketing and creative services tender which includes communications planning, creative strategy, brand platform, experience, advertising campaign development, and content production. The £10m figure was stated in a NCS Trust procurement document as an upper limit over 4 years. The actual cost of the contract is likely to be around £1m per year, for 4 years of the contract.</p><p> </p><p>The NCS Trust is forecast to self-generate c. £3m income in the upcoming financial year. The brand refresh element of the marketing and creative services contract in question will be paid from those funds and we can confirm that no government funding will be spent on this element of the contract. The remainder of the contract will be funded by Government funding.</p><p> </p><p><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> This figure is based on the 2016 programme evaluation, which can be found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-citizen-service-evaluation-report-2016" target="_blank">here</a>. The 2017 evaluation report is currently being finalised.</p><p> </p>
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith