In the arts, the role of the mentor is to dispense advice and guidance drawn form years of experience at the coal face of the creative industries.
Doctors will be told to inform the police whenever somebody arrives in hospital with a wound inflicted in a knife attack, under draft guidance drawn up by the General Medical Council and the Department of Health.
They appear to be sticking firmly to the "guidance" drawn up by College of Policing in May this year, a simplistic document that provides officers with every reason to avoid briefing a journalist.
The guidance drawn up by the College of Policing is the first to deal with female genital mutilation and reflects growing public and political concern over the mutilation and the lack of prosecutions of individuals in the UK.
MPs will be asked to vote in support of guidance drawn up by the director of public prosecutions two years ago that distinguishes between compassionate amateur assistance, which is unlikely to result in prosecution, and malicious encouragement, which can carry a maximum 14-year sentence.
In 2011, the coalition government scrapped guidance drawn up by Labour encouraging councils to set charges at a level which would encourage the use of public transport.
