Provision of toilet facilities at jobcentre

marybelle01

Toilethumour wrote: »

Totally unrelated point, but I was also surprised that the Tutor from our local College had been assigned her own JC security guard who sat a few feet away to protect her from our small group of rather harmless looking individuals. Can't wait to get a job and get out of there!

If their experience of running training is that the tutors need bodyguards, then she probably feels the same way

dandelionclock30

I would have thought it would have been a legal requirement to provide toilet facilities to those on day long courses.
What about pregnant women or those with medical conditions like IBS, or women who really need to go (Aherm) what do they do? Its not on really is it.
I know that jobcentres do have toilets because I was once in one with a friend and I asked to go to the loo. I was friends with one of the advisors anyway and she got security to take me to one.
They should be providing basic toilet facilities as its a long time to wait 1/2 a day for those people.

ohreally

Leave a deposit on the floor, that should raise the issue to the top of the agenda.

Toilethumour

ohreally wrote: »

Leave a deposit on the floor, that should raise the issue to the top of the agenda.

I may not have to resort to such drastic measures. I am reliably informed that Day 2 of preparing me for employment will involve constructing something from lego blocks. I think I might be able to manage a portaloo within 7 hours

dickydonkin

DCFC79 wrote: »

Yep I also tried to use the loo in a job centre once and was told there none so i had to just wait, luckily i wasn't that desperate but luckily on the way back id come across one.

Makes sense why some JC may well not have toilets or only for staff use.

In those desperate days when I used to attend that God forsaken place in Durham, due to a backlog, I was about an hour and a half over my designated 'signing on' time. I was bursting!

I asked politely if there was a toilet I could use and I was informed tersely (that's the Durham jcp way of communicating with the unwashed plebs on the other side of their counter) that no - there was no toilets available for 'customers'!

On asking why, I was informed that a risk assessment would need to be carried out to which I replied that a risk assessment should be carried out for public areas because if people pee themselves on the floor, then that would certainly cause more of an 'incovenience' than allowing people to use the bogs.

I did complain in writing but just received a standard reply which quite frankly was a load of rubbish.

Thank God I don't have to attend that place anymore.

Job Centre Plus - a misnomer if ever there was one!

seven-day-weekend

Other public buildings have toilet facilities. Surely the 'druggie' problem isn't just at the Jobcentre, and even if it is, why should the vast majority of people who are not druggies have to suffer?

colino

Don't know how they get away with it, having done business with DWP they are strict on every element of a training providers presentation never mind leaving out the basics like a loo!

gibson123

I am convinced that Jobcentre are as uncomfortable as possible so that they discourage as many people as possible from signing on and using the "service".

System

As the JC would be classed as a workplace while you are doing the skills course then Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992. Regulation 20, Sanitary conveniences should apply. They should be reported to HSE for the breach.

The_ICT_Engineer

You be hard pushed to find public toilets still open in some towns. As the running costs are often the first on the list when it comes to council cost cutting.