Mentoring projects do not work. That seems to be the stark conclusionfrom an evaluation of 80 Youth Justice Board-funded mentoringschemes.
Between 2001 and 2004 the projects, which cost a total of 11.7m,worked with almost 3,000 children who had committed crimes in the pastor were considered likely to offend.
The projects focused on children with poor literacy or numeracy andBlack and ethnic minority children. Each project assigned the children avolunteer mentor who met with them at least once a week to offer adviceand support.
Researchers from the Institute of Education found these projects didresult in some improvements including a slight fall in the level ofoffending.
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