Evaluation summary of Mentoring Disaffected young people

This is a summary of this publication, which can be obtained through the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Well-run mentoring programmes in Britain have succeeded in helping disaffected young people to make positive changes in their lives through education and one-to-one support from a volunteer adult. But policy makers who have promoted mentoring as the answer to a wide range of youth problems need to be more discriminating in future about its potential benefits.