National youth service scheme could be compulsory, says CSV

By Indira Das-Gupta, Third Sector, 5 September 2007

CSV is calling for the creation of a national youth service, which, it says, could be made compulsory.

The volunteering charity has outlined the scheme in a proposal to the Commission on the Future of Volunteering. Under the scheme, 18 to 25-year-olds would spend a year working unpaid either on voluntary projects in their local communities or in public services such as hospitals and prisons. Its submission says:...

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