WATCH: Highland school kids to get SexEd lessons on consent & online safety

Highland school kids are to get sex education lessons on consent and keeping safe online.

It’s after a survey of 12-to-24-year-olds showed a quarter of them claiming they were not taught enough, when it was needed.

Rachel Hughes from Wave Highland told MFR News: "We launch on November 21st and the first schools we'll be visiting will be Dornoch Academy. Between then and Christmas we've got Tain, Fortrose, Farr, and Golspie signed up initially.

"Mainly the programmes will be launching and aiming towards those in S2 to S4, but we're also looking at ways later down the line that we can do work with those slighly older young people - how we might be able to go into some of the colleges as well.

"Part of what young people are saying is that the sexual health education that they do get probably starts a little later than they would like, and certainly from out survey a lot of people are saying that they'd like it to start before secondary school.

"It's really important that young people have a sense of what's going on with their bodies as they approach puberty and beyond, more information on consent, and online safety, which is a huge issue for them at the moment as well."