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Youth mentoring: A good thing?
This is the title of a report written by Richard Meier and published by the UK's Centre for Policy Studies – a conservative think tank and lobbying organisation.
The report criticises the wide use of youth mentoring schemes by public bodies in the UK, and contends that mentoring "should be seen as a highly skilled, specific form of intervention and that mentors should be more carefully recruited and trained". The report also "calls for a properly resourced control trial to ascertain precisely who can benefit most from mentoring".
The report can be downloaded from the Centre for Policy Studies website. (Source: 'The Edge', n.23, autumn 2008, p.3.)