Monday, June 11, 2007

Plan for new 'teenage call-up' | Communities | SocietyGuardian.co.uk

Plan for new 'teenage call-up' | Communities | SocietyGuardian.co.uk: "Compulsory community service for the sake of social cohesion is suggested in a government report

Jo Revill, Whitehall editor
Sunday June 10, 2007
The Observer

Plans for every young person in Britain to enrol in a national volunteering scheme that could become compulsory are at the centre of a government report into improving social cohesion.

The possibility of mandatory community service is put forward today by Darra Singh, chair of the Commission on Integration and Cohesion, the body created by Tony Blair after the 7 July bombings in 2005 to promote more unity. It echoes the concept of National Service, which ended in 1960, that required all men between the ages of 18 and 26 to serve in the military for up to two years."

No comments: