{"id":60127,"date":"2015-08-07T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=cd6f893904c19e4ffefcfe9639afd616"},"modified":"2015-08-07T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T05:00:00","slug":"press-release-thousands-of-teach-first-teachers-could-join-ncs-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=60127","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Thousands of Teach First teachers could join NCS movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<ul>\n<li>New ambition for all Teach First teachers to volunteer with National Citizen Service from 2017<\/li>\n<li>As <abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr> reaches 200,000 participant this year, this initiative will help even more to benefit from the Prime Minister\u2019s guarantee of a place<\/li>\n<li>Partnership between 2 leading social enterprises will ensure most disadvantaged communities gain vital skills for life and work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Prime Minister will today (Friday) announce a new partnership between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/get-involved\/take-part\/national-citizen-service\">National Citizen Service (<abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr>)<\/a>, the fastest growing youth movement in the country, and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teachfirst.org.uk\/\">Teach First<\/a>. Teach First\u2019s aspiration is that from 2017 all of its teachers will volunteer for <abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr>, unlocking many new mentors and leaders for the programme.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr> brings together young people from different backgrounds to teach them about responsibility and serving their communities. They take part in a 4 week full-time programme including residential weeks and 30 hours of social action in their community.  All of these activities create volunteering and leadership opportunities for adult mentors.<\/p>\n<p>Teach First\u2019s vision that no child\u2019s educational success should be limited by their socio-economic background makes this a natural partnership for the charity, who believe exceptional leaders working in classrooms, schools and communities will end educational inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Teach First, which this year recruited almost 1,700 top graduates, has set an aspiration to see all of its trainees from 2017 onwards taking part in <abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr> as volunteer mentors, generating thousands of hours of additional support for <abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr> participants.  They could do the volunteering before, during or after their time on the Teach First programme.  These teachers will have a range of ways to take part, from leading <abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr> participants on an outward bound week to mentoring them as they make a real difference in their local communities. The partnership, which will begin development immediately, will also create a new network of <abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr> ambassadors in schools, as members of the Teach First community encourage thousands more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to take up their offer of a guaranteed place on <abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister David Cameron said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\"><abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr> is a fantastic opportunity for young people from different backgrounds to come together to gain life skills and give something back to their local community.  Teach First\u2019s mission to break down social barriers makes its teachers ideal volunteer mentors to engage with and inspire young people on <abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr>.  This fantastic partnership will create thousands more opportunities for young people to benefit from <abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ndidi Okezie, Executive Director, Teach First said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Teach First is committed to fostering life-changing opportunities for children from low income communities. This significant partnership will help us and our community of schools to work more closely together to make sure that all children, regardless of their background, can take part in <abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr> and build the character and resilience all teachers know are so important for young people to succeed in life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Lynas, Chief Executive, <abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr> Trust said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The amazing impact that <abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr> has on hundreds of thousands of teenagers is made possible by the energy and enthusiasm of their mentors. As we expand <abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr> so that every young person can take part, we are excited that Teach First teachers will now be using the skills they\u2019ve developed in school to help young people learn the lessons you can\u2019t teach in class.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><abbr title=\"National Citizen Service\">NCS<\/abbr> and Teach First are members of <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iwill.org.uk\/\">Step Up To Serve<\/a> which is aiming to make social action part of life for more 10 to 20-year-olds by 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron will announce a new partnership between National Citizen Service (NCS) and Teach First to create thousands of new NCS mentors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60139,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60127\/revisions\/60139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}