Peer violence is a major challenge in today's society that can have serious consequences for students' mental health. Children have always been exposed to psychological, verbal and physical violence, and with the development of modern technologies, a new form has emerged - virtual violence. Adolescents are a particularly at-risk group while concerning peer violence due to sudden physical and psychosocial changes that happen to them and affect their way of processing information from the world they live in. Although violent behaviour of students also occurs on the premises of the school itself, it is there to prevent such behaviour. One way to do this is through violence prevention programmes, which can take many forms and take many forms. There are large programmes approved by the line ministry, and there are school-level programs organized by local communities and professional associates in individual schools. The empirical research involved eight pedagogues from different high schools, all of which are in the city of Zagreb. The aim of this research was to determine the direction of their attitudes about the quality of the design and implementation of violence prevention programmes. The suggestions they might have in order to improve those prevention programmes had also been looked into. The results of the research show that all respondents believe in the importance of implementing violence prevention programmes. However, while implementing them they encounter problems due to the lack of specification and elaboration of those programmes. Moreover, the lack of time and the lack of employed experts as well as the shortfall of employee engagement are shown to be the obstacles to the proper implementation of the programmes.