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This guidance is for school leaders, staff and governing bodies or trusts of:

• maintained schools
• academies and free schools
• independent schools
• sixth-form colleges
• pupil referral units
• alternative provision academies

It sets out how NCS participation can benefit a school or college, providing measurable evidence for Ofsted of the broader personal development support it is offering young people to:

• become both world-ready and work-ready
• achieve greater confidence, resilience and wellbeing
• have respect and tolerance for difference and diversity