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A joint report published in May by the Commons health and education select committees found schools were struggling to provide sufficient time and resources for pupils' wellbeing.
Attempting to address gaps in PSHE provision is a peer education scheme run by Girlguiding. The project was established in 2003 but has evolved to feature four core elements developed with other organisations covering: resilience, self-esteem, healthy relationships and health and wellbeing.
Girlguides aged 14 to 25 are trained as peer educators to deliver "fun, safe and challenging sessions" on these topics.
One of these, 19-year-old Liddy from the North East, was trained as a peer educator in November 2015. Describing her own experience of classroom-based PSHE as "atrocious", she says the peer education scheme "definitely fills a gap for those girls not getting enough PSHE support in school".
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