Mosaic - Ex-offender Mentoring | Community Integration

Mosaic’s cookie policy

Cookies are files stored in your browser and are used by most websites to help personalise your web experience. Cookies are also known as HTTP cookies, web cookies, or browser cookies.

We may place a cookie in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain personal information, although it will enable us to relate your use of this website to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided.

A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other websites.

You can refuse cookies by not accepting them or by turning them off in your browser. If you have set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie.

Some mosaicnetwork.co.uk features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.

Cookies used on this site:

These are cookies that we use to help make the site work in the way that we want you to experience it. They include:

PHPSESSID – this cookie is used to make the most basic parts of the site work. It is placed automatically when you visit the site and is removed when you leave. It doesn’t send any data about you to anyone

Website tracking cookies
These are cookies that we use to see how people use the site and which pages they look at. We use this information to see how things are working and update and improve the site accordingly. They include:

_utma, _utmc, _utmb, _utmz – these cookies are used by the Google Analytics service we use to see which pages and parts of the site you visit and anonymously send these results to them. They do send data out but you cannot be identified from it.

Content sharing
This site uses cookies for AddThis, a tool that allows users to share this website’s content through a range of social media channels and email clients.

AddThis cookies include:

Psc, uid, uit, uvc - Although the AddThis cookies do no collect personally identifiable information about our users, it does collect general information that includes which web page you came from, which type of browser you are using, and your general geographic location. AddThis uses this information to provide analytics to help website owners that helps them better understand their visitors. AddThis also uses this information to help advertisers deliver more relevant ads. Mosaic however does not sell advertising space on this site.

The ex-offenders mentoring programme was developed in response to the increasing numbers of young Muslims residing in prisons in England and Wales. There are currently over 10,000 Muslims in UK prisons representing 12% of the total prison population. The programme was developed in partnership with Muslim Youth Helpline (MYH) and Business in the Community.

Objectives

The period of transition from custody to community can often be extremely challenging, particularly for individuals lacking support. The programme provides focused support and mentoring opportunities to prisoners aged 16 to 35 years old approaching the end of their custodial sentence.

The programme

Mosaic’s trained mentors meet prisoners three to six months before release to establish a long-lasting relationship which continues into the community-integration phase. The mentors offer wide-ranging practical assistance, including helping prisoners to secure housing and employment. With these vital support structures in place, the likelihood of re-offending in the future is significantly reduced.

To qualify for a mentor a prisoner must:

Be a self-declared Muslim
Be aged 18-30 at the beginning of the mentoring relationship
Not be convicted of a serious sexual assault and not be convicted of, or under investigation for any terrorist-related activity.
Be eligible for release back in to the local community and not be liable to deportation

Mentors

The programme involves a one-to-one mentoring relationship for 12 months, with an approximate commitment: of 1-2 hours per month. For more information, download our mentor information pack.

Ex-offender Guidance Panel

The Ex-offender Guidance Panel are a group of individuals with a track record of success in the criminal and youth justice system. They bring their various expertise, talent and contacts to support the development of Mosaic’s ex-offender work. Find out more about the panel

Mosaic’s cookie policy

Top Stories