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04/05/07: Angela Browning M.P. presenting the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation APPROVED PROVIDER STANDARD Certificate to Dawn, the Co-ordinator of the Voluntary Support Scheme.
This represents a tremendous amount of hard work by Dawn and the committee. Well done everyone!
The Mentoring and Befriending Foundation is the national body for mentoring and befriending. It administers the Approved Provider Standard.
The Approved Provider Standard (APS) is a national benchmark for organisations providing one-to-one, volunteer mentoring or befriending. It is a national award supported by the Cabinet Office and Department for Education and Skills and aims to provide programmes with a badge of competence and safe practice in mentoring or befriending.
APS aims to ensure the consistency and quality of mentoring and befriending programmes by focusing on the key management and operational areas of the programme including programme aims and management structure, procedures for identification and referral of clients, recruitment, selection and training of volunteers, monitoring of relationships and programme evaluation.