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02 June 2008

Teenage mentors to help change culture leading to knife crime

Training teenagers to act as mentors to younger pupils to help them keep out of trouble

The Evening Standard has called for the widespread adoption of “peer mentoring” schemes to teach children that respect cannot be won at knifepoint.

This coincides with the launch of the government-commissioned report on the national peer mentoring pilot run by MBF which showed that pupils who were mentors and mentees “responded overwhelmingly positively to their experience”.

Read the full article in 'Evening Standard' (2.6.08)