Mentoring Fund Evaluation
03 Sep 2020
A national mentoring campaign was launched by the Government in January 2016 to connect a new generation of mentors to pre-GCSE teenagers. Later that year, The Careers & 黑料吃瓜网 Company聽launched a Fund聽to support mentoring activities young people,听with the objective of ensuring that; 鈥�25,000 young people at risk of disengagement in the run-up to their GCSEs have a mentor in place by 2020鈥�.听
This digest summarises some of the main findings from the external evaluation of the Fund. The evaluation assessed the extent to which the funded programme met its aims in supporting young people and extending the reach of mentoring activities with employers and amongst schools.听
This ambitious programme had three main components:聽
- 迟辞听reach a significant number of young people聽who were at risk of disengagement in the years leading up to their GCSEs聽
- 迟辞听work with schools across all LEP areas聽to include mentoring in their careers programmes聽
- 迟辞听increase the number of mentors聽volunteering to support young people聽聽