The aim of this book, "Mentoring in Schools: The Way to Succeed" by Pam and John Richardson, is to provide an aide memoire for mentors of young people with a ready reference for safe and effective mentoring best practice. Every year of a young person's education is an important step on their path to becoming a valuable member of society. Every step they take is moving them nearer to living a happy and fulfilling life.That is the ideal situation for our young people. However, it is not always the reality. Modern day life can present all sorts of challenges that young people have to cope with whilst they try to get a good education. Do we need to list them? NO!No young person goes to school determined to fail and yet this can be the outcome for all too many these days. So what can be done to help young people to achieve despite the challenges that they may face? Mentoring has for a long time been seen as a way of helping people to fulfil their potential.This book will be a useful reference to support those people mentoring young people in any setting,