Schools providing Sanitary protection

Spendless

Tabbytabitha wrote: »

I don't think menstrual sponges are necessarily any more messy than tampons, unless you leave it very late to change one of them, in which case either can be messy.

Mind you, I never saw that sort of behaviour in the loos either.

Don't you have to change them after a few hours? Most toilets have communal washrooms. Some schools are going to open plan ones. Many girls aren't confident with using anything other than towels to start off with, I know I didn't pluck up courage to try tampons until I was 16, 3 years after starting.

theoretica

Comms69 wrote: »

Using a cap on child benefit to fund this would no doubt alienate people without girls.

No doubt, but is there any equivalent necessary and unavoidable expense which applies only to boys? Why should parents of boys be slightly better off than parents of girls?

Comms69

theoretica wrote: »

No doubt, but is there any equivalent necessary and unavoidable expense which applies only to boys? Why should parents of boys be slightly better off than parents of girls?

Well it depends how you look at it, I know I go through a hell of a lot of uniforms because they play rough / physical games during breaks. I have no comparison as I don’t have a girl, but logically it makes sense.

But that aside it will still alienate parents and I’m not sure that’s the objective of this scheme.

badmemory

Surely most parents would say OMG how can a parent not provide this essential for their daughter. This is after all for the girls & not for their parents. Unless of course vouchers are provided for the girls themselves to use & like having to prove you are over the age to buy say alcohol, they have to prove that they are under the age whether 16 or 18 is chosen or whether child benefit age is selected. Because it will be necessary to stop the mothers using them for themselves, unfortunately extreme selfishness is alive & well or we would only be discussing one part of this subject.

Homeagain

ska_lover wrote: »

I am reading currently about 'Period Poverty' in the UK..the sixth richest country in the world, allegedly, although you wouldn't know it

Is it right that some Schools are now providing sanitary protection?

You can buy Tesco everyday essentials pads for 0.23p

Don't get me wrong, I am far from poverty bashing as I have been in some awful situations in the past.....all I am seeing is people bashing this as how can parents not afford 23 pence but we all know circumstances change

When i was a teen, my mother used to insist we ASKED for money for STs - they weren't just 'provided'. I used to find this so excruciatingly embarrassing that I never would ask her as it was admitting ''HEY I'M ON MY PERIOD''..and when i was 13/14 - EVERYTHING was embarrassing

I always swore if i had a daughter, that sanitary protection would be on my monthly shopping list and it would magically appear in her room and no discussion about it

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What right do you have to suggest that young, impressionable girls should be made to suffer the shame and embarrassment of being without sanitary protection due to the failure of their parent/s to provide it? Whether their parent/s are being !!!!less or just getting something 'for free' as it were, does not, under any circumstances, mean that the child must bear that shame.

surveyqueenuk

Homeagain wrote: »

What right do you have to suggest that young, impressionable girls should be made to suffer the shame and embarrassment of being without sanitary protection due to the failure of their parent/s to provide it? Whether their parent/s are being !!!!less or just getting something 'for free' as it were, does not, under any circumstances, mean that the child must bear that shame.

Where on earth did ska lover say that? All they said was that they wondered how 23p could not be found for a young girl. You've read all kinds of rubbish into it.

it's almost as if you have some sort of agenda going on...

Homeagain

Comms69 wrote: »

It’s irrelevant if I have experience of it or not. I’m also not homeless, or drug dependent. My point was about empathising with people.

Clearly not all women take drugs..?! I think you missed the point entirely.

As I said, why are they struggling?

Even with a single working parent- a FT minimum wage jobs is around £1300 a month.
Child benefit £34 a week
And £600 tax credits a month
- I suspect there’s also a housing benefit payment but working that out is a right pain.

It’s not about a little help; there’s quite a lot of help there!

In which country do these wages and benefits exist?

Homeagain

surveyqueenuk wrote: »

Where on earth did ska lover say that? All they said was that they wondered how 23p could not be found for a young girl. You've read all kinds of rubbish into it.

it's almost as if you have some sort of agenda going on...

'Agenda?' Please explain.

surveyqueenuk

Homeagain wrote: »

'Agenda?' Please explain.

With pleasure...

I assume that you are an intelligent person. So I am wondering how you have managed to turn "Is it right that some Schools are now providing sanitary protection?" into "It is not right...".

I can only imagine that you are out to cause some sort of bunfight.

Tabbytabitha

phryne wrote: »

Didn't you? Oh we had a loo that was haunted. Or so the older girls used to tell us.

You were at Hogwarts?