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Mentoring for Progression: Prison Mentoring project – assessing strengths, outcomes and roll-out potential
Year of publication: 2010Author: Huggins, Richard
Publisher: Oxford Brookes University
Summary: The Buck Project’s Prison Peer Mentoring Project has been operating for six years in a small number of prisons and Young Offender Institutions in the Thames Valley based on established peer mentoring best practice. It helps prisoners into vocational, further and higher education to improve their chances of employment post release and lowering re-offending levels. This independent report highlights the beneficial impacts on offenders and the institutions the project has worked with and in. The data suggests that the project has significant capacity to reduce offending and support positive and transformative changes in the behaviour and life chances of offenders.
