Relational Mentoring Scotland - building strong relationships to support personal growth, confidence, and long-term positive outcomes (an evolving case study of best organisational practice and outcome applied learning).
Category
- Promising Local Practice
Poverty impact
- Prevention
- Mitigation
- Reduction
- Awareness
Poverty driver
- Reduce cost of living
- Increase employment income
Keywords
- Training
- Lived Experience
- Employment
- Child Poverty
- Relational Support
Aim
Relational Mentoring Scotland aims to reduce child poverty and improve household stability through whole-household relational support. The service supports families experiencing poverty, complexity and economic inactivity to:
• Improve household stability and resilience.
• Reduce crisis-level need.
• Increase financial resilience and wellbeing.
• Improve access to services and support.
• support progression towards education, training and sustainable employment.
• Generate learning about how relational and whole-family approaches contribute to long-term poverty reduction.
Summary
Relational Mentoring Scotland (RMS) provides whole-household, one-to-one relational support to families experiencing poverty, instability and multiple disadvantage. The service supports households to improve stability, wellbeing, financial resilience, and progression towards sustainable employment. RMS recognises that poverty is interconnected and that families are often navigating multiple pressures simultaneously including debt, housing insecurity, poor mental health, caring responsibilities, and economic inactivity. Through trusted relationships and long-term mentoring, the service helps families engage with services, overcome barriers and build sustainable progress.
What difference does it make?
Cannot be determined at this point in time.
Key take-aways
- Poverty is interconnected and rarely exists as a single issue.
- Stability is often the foundation for sustainable employment and progression.
- Trust and continuity are critical to effective support.
- Whole-family and relational approaches improve engagement and outcomes.
- Data should be used, not only to describe need, but to shape public service reform.
How to guide
Additional information that may assist others to adopt this local practice
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The Wise Group.
Location
The service currently operates across • Glasgow • Inverclyde • North Lanarkshire • South Lanarkshire • Renfrewshire • Scottish Borders.