The initiative follows research from The Prince's Trust, which found 65 per cent of young offenders believe mentoring could stop them reoffending.
The coalition, which includes The Prince's Trust, Clinks and St Giles Trust, is now bidding for around £43,000 from the Innovation Exchange to improve mentoring services for 16- to 25-year-olds in custody. The cash will be used to create a "mentoring map" of services across the UK and to complete studies examining the impact of better youth mentoring.
Ginny Lunn, head of policy and development at The Prince's Trust, said mentoring of young offenders would help cut reoffending. "There's a real gap in the support young people get," she said. "We need to prove to government what it will cost but we need to do more work to analyse it. We want to be able to say: 'If we can get half the money from the private sector can the government match it?'"
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