The report, ‘Youth Mentoring: a Good Thing?’, said there was a gulf between political enthusiasm for mentoring and the research evidence to support it.
It said: high-quality mentoring can be an effective tool for some specific groups of troubled youth but stressed that it needed to be more tightly focused on those youths for whom it can work, more rigorously controlled and more carefully monitored.
The report argued that the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation (MBF) – the strategic body that supervises mentoring – should abandon the current approved provider standard and replace it with a far more prescriptive and compulsory inspection scheme for mentoring schemes receiving public money.
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