Meet The Team: After over 12 years of hard work and consistent delivery of specialist high risk offence services across the Midlands and elsewhere in the UK, MWM has been wound down to a bespoke service and consultancy provision which will run 'as is' for the foreseeable future.
As of April 2025, we remain delivering bespoke, high risk service support in and around the Midlands area and look forward to developing the MWM brand and work into its next phase over the years to come.
Thank you to all the people who helped bring us this far, it was not possible without you - Chris
Management:
Chris Dyer, Director - is a 30 + years' experienced professional in the criminal justice arena and set up Mentoring West Midlands in its current format in December 2012; previously from May 2011 it was a specialist consultancy. He is an operational deliverer 'by trade' and the former Strategic Lead Officer for Urban Street Gangs and Reducing Gang Violence for Birmingham. A professionally accredited 'high risk' mediator, mentor and experienced trainer, he holds Level 3 Certificates in Education and Learning and Designated Safeguarding Officer status and is a qualified Care Manager (C & G Advanced M'ment for Care). Chris provides day to day management and leadership within the organisation and leads on all external, professional staff training.
Chris finished working as an Approved Advisor of The Home Office's Ending Gang & Serious Youth Violence Peer Review Team in 2016, who he worked with for close to 4 years; he remains part of the national working group. Previously, whilst working as a senior officer for Birmingham Community Safety Partnership he had specific responsibilities for jointly leading and formulating the city's safeguarding responses to vulnerable and high risk young people, with a view to limiting their involvement in criminal gangs and organised crime; he was also part of the Multi-Agency Gang Unit management team and Vice-Chair of Birmingham Reducing Gang Violence 1 (BRGV1) the city's main tactical, partnership group.
Chris' career in the criminal justice system spans 30 years, as does his operational delivery and senior management experience. He started working in the field of 'extreme emotional and behavioural difficulties', managing and delivering residential programmes for young people aged 10-22, who had committed serious sexual and violent offences. He is a former senior consultant for the national charity Crime Concern (Catch 22 in its current form) and his career also includes success in social business development, change management and creating, managing and delivering programmes of work for some of the country's most challenging and dangerous people.
His work was nationally recognised with a British Community Safety Award in 2001 for his work in the Low Hill Neighbourhood Safety Programme and internationally recognised in 2004, when he received the European Crime Prevention Award whilst working for Crime Concern as a senior consultant, seconded to Birmingham to run the city's Safer Neighbourhood Programme.
Specialist Mentoring Staff:
Daniel Scates, Specialist Mentor - Dan has worked for 11 years in children's residential care, 9 of these in a managerial role; his main service user group was young females that have been victim to CSE and also young people with convictions for violence and sexual offences. He has helped deliver therapeutic in-house programmes to help young people better regulate and manage their emotions. For the 12 months prior to working for MWM Dan has been working in a supported living setting helping vulnerable 16-18 year old care leavers develop their independent skills ready for them to go on and gain their own tenancy. Dan holds an NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care, Children and Young People.
Solomon Griffiths, Specialist Mentor - Solomon has worked for MWM, on 3 seperate occasions, since the company's inception; he has close to 16 years experience in working with high risk young people and adults and came to MWM having worked as a mediator with the high risk conflict resolution service in Birmingham dealing regularly with credible threats to life scenarios, engaging with all levels of public protection case work (adult and young person) involved in 'gun and gang' lifestyles, also organised crime, Solomon is an accredited OCN Lv3 high risk mediator and conflict resolution specialist; he also works in schools with young people delivering programme interventions relating to knife crime.
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