Home resources ForcesWatch materials The recruitment agenda behind the UK armed forces’ ‘engagement’ with students in schools and colleges
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The recruitment agenda behind the UK armed forces’ ‘engagement’ with students in schools and colleges
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The armed forces make around 11,000 visits to secondary schools and colleges schools in the UK each year, and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) spends around £26 million each year on school Combined Cadet Force (CCF) units, both of which have a strong recruitment agenda behind them, contrary to the repeated denials of this in recent years by the MoD.
This briefing is a compilation of evidence that contradicts the MoD and armed forces’ claims that they don’t recruit in schools and that ‘engaging’ with students does not have a recruitment purpose.
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