The Comptroller & Auditor General has issued a report to Parliament stating that the National Citizen Service drew down unnecessary funds in 2019-20 in breach of HM Treasury’s Managing Public Money guidance.
The National Citizen Service Trust (NCS)’s 2019-20 annual report and accounts published last month contains a report addressed to the Houses of Parliament from Gareth Davies, the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG) and head of the National Audit Office (NAO), concerning NCS’ management of public funds during the year ended 31 March 2020.
NCS was established in 2009 as a community interest company and granted a Royal Charter in 2018 as an arm’s length body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) following the National Citizen Service Act 2017. It works with a variety of delivery partners to provide subsidised summer programmes for 16 and 17-year olds with the aim of bringing together young people from different backgrounds to work on pr