National Careers Service community-based contracts funding rules
Sets out the funding rules for the community-based contracts for the National Careers Service.
Applies to England
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This document sets out the rules for funding and associated evidence needed for the National Careers Service community-based contracts that apply from April 20252026 to March 2026.2027.
Updates to this page
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1 April 2025 Updated the National Careers Service funding rules for April 2025 to March 2026.
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1 May 2024 Added 'National Careers Service funding rules: addendum'.
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1 April 2024 Updated the National Careers Service funding rules for April 2024 to March 2025.
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31 March 2023 Added the National Careers Service funding rules for April 2023 to March 2024.
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30 September 2022 The latest version of the National Careers Service's area-based contracts funding rules has been added.
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10 January 2022 We have published version 7 of the National Careers Service funding rules.
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10 May 2021 We have published the latest set of the National Careers Service area-based contracts funding rules.
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28 April 2020 We have published version 4 of the National Careers Service funding rules.
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31 October 2019 We have published an updated version of the National Careers Service funding rules.
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1 April 2019 We have updated the National Careers Service funding rules.
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1 October 2018 We have published the updated version of National Careers Service funding rules.
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3 April 2018 Updated funding rules for area-based prime contractors.
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25 July 2017 New version of NCS funding rules uploaded on 25 July 2017.
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15 June 2017 New file titled National careers service area based contractors: performance management arrangements uploaded on 15 June 2017.
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25 April 2016 First published.
Update history
2026-04-01 09:30
Updated the National Careers Service funding rules for April 2026 to March 2027.
2025-04-01 09:00
Updated the National Careers Service funding rules for April 2025 to March 2026.
2024-05-01 15:47
Added ‘National Careers Service funding rules: addendum’.
2024-04-01 00:01
Updated the National Careers Service funding rules for April 2024 to March 2025.
2023-03-31 10:00
Added the National Careers Service funding rules for April 2023 to March 2024.
2022-09-30 13:55
The latest version of the National Careers Service’s area-based contracts funding rules has been added.