Rejected petition ensure schools provide same-sex toilets.
Ensure schools provide girls with same sex toilets to enable them privacy when going to the toilet to avoid 'period shaming'.
Children are skipping school or holding off from going to the toilet or avoiding drinking, causing damage such as infections.
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Safe Schools Alliance UK is of the view that there needs to be proper provision of sex-specific toilets. Suitable provisions preserve the safety, dignity and privacy of all children.
The Department of Education suggest that separate toilet and washing facilities must be provided.
The School Premises Regulations (2012) also state that separate toilet facilities for boys and girls age 8 years and over should be provided.
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As you state in your petition, schools are already required to provide separate toilet facilities for boys and girls aged 8 years or over are provided, except where the toilet facility is provided in a room that can be secured from the inside and that is intended for use by one pupil at a time. It's therefore not clear what additional requirements you want the Government to impose.
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