How to Evaluate a 1-1 Mentoring Programme

This guide provides a practical step by step approach to evaluating one to one mentoring programmes. It explains how to use outcomes frameworks, surveys, session records, mentor observations, and qualitative evidence to measure change and understand how mentoring relationships develop over time.

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The guide uses an indicator led evaluation approach designed for relationship based mentoring. It also explains how mentoring contributes to wider changes in areas such as education, offending risk, wellbeing, and engagement by influencing young people’s pathways through risk over time.