However, the board insisted that it remained committed to the use ofmentoring in fighting youth crime.
Researchers from the Institute of Education examined the 80 projects,which provided one-to-one mentors to juvenile offenders and childrenthought likely to offend. They found that the projects improvedattendance and behaviour at school and that specialist projects,including ones for Black and ethnic minority children, did help thechildren.
A third of young people who took part in the mentoring projects enteredor re-entered education or training.
However, the researchers said it was unclear whether the projects wouldlead to long-term changes in behaviour and that they were "substantiallymore expensive" than the board's education projects, which producedsimilar results.
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