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Our new #MentoringandBefriending Practice Guide supports organisations to deliver life-changing mentoring and befriending services for #CareExperienced children and young people ✨

📑 foundations.org.uk/practice-guides/mentoring-and-befriending
April 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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We’re excited to be in Parliament this evening to mark the launch of the #MentoringandBefriending Practice Guide, hearing from Baroness Morris, Jo Casebourne, Isabelle Trowler, @janetdaby.bsky.social, and Michael, a member of our Experts by Experience Panel 🌟
April 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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The key principles in the new #MentoringandBefriending Practice Guide help local leaders design and implement effective support for #CareExperienced children & young people, and those at risk of entering care. Find out more: foundations.org.uk/practice-gui...
April 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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ICYMI 🔔 Yesterday we launched the #MentoringAndBefriending Practice Guide, an evidence-based tool for local leaders focusing on how supportive relationships can improve outcomes for care-experienced children & young people 👇 Find out more: foundations.org.uk/practice-guides/mentoring-and-befriending
April 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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New 📢 #MentoringandBefriending Practice Guide for #CareExperienced children & young people. Find out about evidence-based mentoring and befriending support that can improve mental health, reduce offending, and support family reunification: foundations.org.uk/practice-guides/mentoring-and-befriending
Copy about the Mentoring and Befriending Practice Guide with an image of two dark-skinned people. One is smiling and wears a colourful head scarf, they look towards the other person (who is slightly out of focus), who has long braids, gold hoop earrings and wears a yellow jumper. The copy reads: This Practice Guide has been produced to help senior leaders, in local authorities and third sector organisations, to commission and expand the availability of evidence-based mentoring and befriending programmes that have been found to improve outcomes for children and young people.
April 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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The new #MentoringandBefriending Practice Guide puts the best available evidence in the hands of local leaders and helps them design & deliver support that works for care-experienced children & young people ✨

📑 foundations.org.uk/practice-gui...
"As a leader, I'm always looking for ways to strengthen the support we provide. To do that well, I need the best evidence at my fingertips so that every decision I make about services is grounded in what truly works. This Practice Guide is an essential resource for me and for all of us who want to ensure that care experienced young people have the consistent, meaningful relationships they need to feel safe and thrive". - Rasheed Pendry, Director of Children's Social Care, Wandsworth Borough Council
April 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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This week we published our #MentoringandBefriending Practice Guide for #CareExperienced children & young people, an evidence-based resource designed to support the delivery of effective #Mentoring and befriending programmes. Read more in CYPN: www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news...
Experts call for boost to care-experienced mentoring support - CYP Now
Researchers are calling for investment in evidence-backed mentoring and befriending initiatives for care-experienced children and young people after analysis found they can boost mental health, reduce...
www.cypnow.co.uk
April 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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ICYMI 🔔Read the new blog by Head of Practice Development @nimaljude.bsky.social to find out more about the new #MentoringandBefriending Practice Guide, an evidence-based resource designed to support the delivery of effective #Mentoring and befriending programmes: foundations.org.uk/building-the...
A quote card with the following copy: "The evidence underpinning the Guide not only sheds light on the value of mentoring and befriending programmes in improving outcomes, it also brings together research on the views of children and young people about the design and delivery of mentoring and befriending support. The perspectives of children and young people in this research offer meaningful learning and insights, which the Practice Guide collects in a series of Key Principles designed to support effective mentoring and befriending programmes." The card also features a head and shoulders image of Foundations' Head of Practice Development, Nimal Jude. Nimal has light-brown skin and dark-brown, shoulder-length curly hair. She is wearing a bright coral lipstick, and silver earrings.
April 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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To help local leaders put the new #MentoringAndBefriending Practice Guide into action, we've created the Reflective Tool 💭

The tool supports leaders to put the Guide into practice locally, create a plan & track progress ⭐️

Download the Reflective Tool: foundations.org.uk/wp-content/u...
April 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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NEW BLOG ✍ @nimaljude.bsky.social, Head of Foundations' new Practice Development Team, introduces the latest Practice Guide on #MentoringandBefriending, outlining the positive benefits of proven support for #CareExperienced children & young people: foundations.org.uk/building-the...
A quote card with the following copy: "Care-experienced children and young people often miss the chance to form sustained bonds with adults and peers. Mentoring and befriending programmes that match these young people with trusted adults and peers are one way to help them to build consistent relationships, and to support them to grow in confidence, overcome challenges and realise their hopes for the future." The card also features a head and shoulders image of Foundations' Head of Practice Development, Nimal Jude. Nimal has light-brown skin and dark-brown, shoulder-length curly hair. She is wearing a bright coral lipstick, and silver earrings.
April 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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WATCH ▶️ The #MentoringandBefriending Practice Guide provides evidence-based recommendations for local leaders to help them deliver effective support for care-experienced children & young people.

Read the Practice Guide: foundations.org.uk/toolkit/prac...
April 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM