Pupils at a Dunfermline high school have been leading the campaign against gender-based violence in their school.

A group of senior pupils at Woodmill High School have completed training as Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) and are now delivering classes to junior pupils.

The MVP scheme is a peer mentoring programme that allows young people to explore and challenge the stereotypes and attitudes that result in gender-based violence.  The MVP mentors work with other pupils to recognise the gender-based biases and then develop their leadership skills to challenge this.

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The programme increases pupil awareness of gender-based violence and increases the reporting and challenging of it in schools.

One of the mentors, Kaz MacDonald, said: “MVP has been really great at helping me to understand more about gender based violence and how I can recognise and help prevent it.

"The training has been really good at building my confidence so that I could share all my new knowledge and help influence younger people to also think about how we can be better at being active bystanders and stopping all forms of violence.”

Education Scotland supports the programme, and it has now been introduced in all local authorities across Scotland.