Recommendation 23

Initiatives for mentoring should be scaled up . Mentors can be people who have previously been on probation themselves or volunteers from the community. The Government should launch a national campaign to recruit mentors from the community. Charitable organisations should be commissioned to train and manage large numbers of mentors. Offenders should be offered the opportunity to be matched with a mentor, who would guide them through their sentence. (Paragraph 128) Maximising impact Borrowing best practices from youth justice (paragraphs 130 to 149)