The overall role of the YCF is to provide a military style provision of learning & development to the members which follows the traditional cadet model of the MOD cadet forces. Through a hidden curriculum the cadets are taught key discipline skills that are underpinned within the organisation to support our young people in the following areas:
The L&D programmes are divided into key levels that will allow each young person the chance to migrate through the proficiency levels to reach ‘Master Cadet’. Within each level the learning and development programme follows the same core elements of teaching but are split to become increasingly more challenging to allow a differentiated process that becomes accessible and inclusive to all cadets. The key learning phases are set out below: