However, it has warned this progress will be undermined unless the Government ensures the status of the subject is boosted by making it part of the national curriculum.
Viv Crouch, a member of the group and lead nurse for the Bath and North East Somerset Teenage Pregnancy Partnership Board, said: "It's an excellent scheme but to make it work it needs to be a curriculum subject. This would encourage schools to release teachers to do it."
She said the low status of the subject meant many schools were continuing to cut the amount of time given to PSHE. The subject was often crammed into a 20-minute tutor time period or collapsed into one half-day a year, she added.
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