The programme, which will be launched during Local Democracy Week in October, forms the first part of the organisation's four-year push towards a bill securing votes at 16, one of the three campaign areas it is focusing on in the coming year.
The initiative, delivered by and targeted at 12- to 16-year-olds, is likely to be piloted in one region with a small number of peer educators, before being rolled out nationally.
Youth parliament member Andy Gallant, 16, is leading the peer education initiative. "It's all right having a teacher telling you, 'this is why you should vote', but it's completely different to have a person of your own age saying to you, 'it's better if you take an active role'," he said. "Young people will take in a lot more if it's said to them in their own language."
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