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When someone is sentenced to a community order, it is “vital” that they are assigned a peer mentor, we heard from Pavan Dhaliwal. She explained that someone who has previously been on probation can help an offender make the most out of what is offered to them. 233 Revolving Doors shared the conclusions of an inquiry of its own, through which they found that “many people on probation supervision felt that peer support would have likely helped them to engage with probation more, and more honestly, from an earlier stage, which would have supported earlier desistance from crime”. 234 Other measures