Early Help Targeted Support (Mentoring Plus)

Mentoring Plus is a local charity which supports young people facing challenges by connecting them with their community through award winning mentoring schemes, youth clubs, projects and inspiring activities programmes.

Mentoring Plus specifically support young people identified as facing more than one risk factor from those detailed below:
•    Displaying signs of anti–social behaviour
•    Either disengaged, excluded or at risk of exclusion from education
•    Or not in employment or training (NEET)
•    In or leaving care
•    Experiencing significant challenges out of school – including factors such as a lack of role models, family breakdown, bereavement, isolation and historic domestic violence.

Young people are matched with a volunteer mentor for up to 1 year. 

This service is offered to young people aged 12-21 (21-25 with a SEND diagnosis). We provide an in-school primary mentoring service for which referrals are received directly from primary schools or through the Behaviour & Attendance Panel of primary headteachers. Age: 12 – 21 years (21-25 with SEND diagnosis). Primary mentoring via primary schools for direct referrals or through Behaviour and Attendance Panel process.