Although the Mentoring schemes study, which was commissioned by the board, was positive about many aspects of mentoring, it suggested mentoring programmes are not as economic a way of reducing offending as was hoped.The study analysed 80 Youth Justice Board-supported schemes run between 2001 and 2004. The projects worked with groups of young people who were at risk of offending, or had offended, and focused on Black and minority ethnic and hard-to-reach young people, and young people with learning difficulties.
The researchers found about a third of the programmes were effective at getting young people into education or training, rising to 45 per cent when projects lasted over ten months with an average of 15 meetings.
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