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Learning Mentors

Learning Mentors are skilled school based staff who support children, young people and their families overcome barriers to learning The service is provided by a paid co-ordinator and link learning mentor. The clients are school staff including current and prospective learning mentors. The service involves providing advice, guidance, support, training and a facilitated network. This service started in 2004 and is planned to 2011. The service is currently free to SET schools but the withdrawal of government funding for the training of Learning mentors may mean a fee for this from September 2009. This has been highly successful (see evaluation reports) The service is not financially sustainable but may develop into one in the future through subscription and trading training. The training continues to attract approximately 20 people a year. Our plans for the development of this service over the life of the business plan include brokering new accredited training which staff and schools may wish to pay for.