Thursday 8 April 2010

Citizens' Service (Mark 2?)

David Cameron says he wants a national voluntary citizens' service scheme. Apart from its focus on 16 year olds alone, the voluntary nature of the scheme makes this little different from the Millennium Volunteers scheme launched by David Blunkett in 1998 when he was education and employment secretary. It is now called v-involved. But its voluntary nature meant it was never going to be a universal scheme. Cameron's scheme is destined to be no different.

1 comment:

Zokko said...

Surprise, surprise - Sir Michael Caine is backing the Tories. The star of the worst film ever made - 'The Swarm' - supports the worst political party in Britain. They deserve each other.