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Former Prime Minister of the UK who resigned in the wake of losing the EU referendum to Brexit campaigners, David Cameron, has announced that his new job will be to oversee the expansion of the National Citizen Service (NCS) programme. Speaking about the program he set up himself during his 6-years as Prime Minister, MP. Mr Cameron stated that the NCS was “one of [his] proudest achievement” and it’s one of the few that have not been torn up by his successor, Theresa May.
Since its launch in 2011, the program has helped more than 275,000 teenagers and the government announced on Wednesday that it was going to introduce a National Citizen Service Bill to create a Royal Charter and make the NCS a permanent public institution. NCS entails a residential programme for 15 to 17-year-olds including outdoors activities like hiking and abseiling, followed by a “Dragon’s Den” style pitch where teenagers work together in teams to present a volunteering project to help their local community.
In his article published in Daily Telegraph, Mr Cameron revealed that the program was “the Big Society in action” and he will try his best as chairman of NCS Patrons to make sure its availability reaches out to every young person in Britain. He stated that the NCS helps young people build “soft skills, the resilience, the self-confidence and the creativity that can help them get on in life,” adding that “these are vital life skills – and they shouldn’t be the preserve of a privileged few.”
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