A group of students in Angus are hoping to give staff and pupils a better understanding of autism through a virtual reality headset programme.

The Angus Autism Awareness Team is currently raising funds for the programme, which will give an insight into what it is like to have autism.

There are currently more than 10,000 young people in Scotland with autism, with 172 aged between five and 19 in Angus.

The team aim to provide staff workshops and pupil assemblies with the ambition of growing the service within the next two years to cover the wider Tayside area.

To begin the programme, the team are currently raising money for a Pixel smartphone, a Daydream View Virtual Reality Headset and a Pixel phone case.

In total, the equipment will cost around £700, and will allow the team to use an app from the National Autistic Society to put the user in the place of an autistic person.

The team hosted a successful test staff workshop, which did not include virtual reality, and received positive feedback from attendees.

One participant said: "On a personal level it really made me think about how I engage and work with young people who are autistic and am I actually giving the correct support they require and if I am not how can I implement this into my practice, it has actually sparked some excitement in me and I am looking forward to taking this forward."