Peer Mentoring
Welcome to the peer mentoring section of our website.
We are funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) to support the development of peer mentoring for young people aged 11-25.
Our peer mentoring team work with practitioners and co-ordinators of projects to aid the implementation and delivery of effective and sustainable peer mentoring programmes. Through this contract, we support practitioners in a pre-16 setting (11-16 years, usually in a school environment) and a post-16 setting (16-25 years, both in and out of education).
The team has a national remit and offers training, guidance, resources and networking opportunities for anyone involved in the development of peer mentoring.
Over the past two years, the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation has been managing a national peer mentoring pilot, the purpose of which is to evaluate the effectiveness of different peer mentoring models in schools and to assess the impact that they are having on the students involved.
The 180 schools taking part in the pilot focussed their peer mentoring activity in four key areas: attainment, bullying, behaviour and transition.
The independent evaluation, carried out by the University of Canterbury, is now available. To find out more, and read the report, please click here.
For further information please contact the peer mentoring team.
