Criminal Proceedings: Training
Commons · Question 28197 · Tabled 3 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Josh Babarinde
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure that peer mentors in the criminal justice system are adequately trained and supported in their roles.
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 11 Feb 2025
Peer mentoring already plays an important role in supporting rehabilitation within prison and probation services. It is currently used in various ways, including providing lived experience insights of probation community requirements, and direct one-to-on...