FOI Request - Sanitary Facilities in Schools
Request 101003845363
Freedom of Information request relating to The School Premises (General Requirements and Standards) (Scotland) Regulations 1967. For ease, the relevant sections of the regulations for the purposes of this FOI are,
15.-(1) In every school sanitary accommodation shall be provided for the pupils by appliances on a scale not less than that specified in Table VIII: Provided that in every school which is not designed exclusively for girls half the accommodation shall be for boys and not more than one third of the appliances for boys shall be water closets and the remainder shall be urinals, each 2 foot length of urinal being counted as one appliance for the purposes of Table VIII. (2) In every school providing for pupils beyond stage P IV in the sanitary accommodation for girls there shall be suitable provision for the disposal of sanitary towels. (3) In every school every sanitary appliance or group of sanitary appliances shall be situated near to a wash basin or wash basins. (4) In every school every water closet shall be provided with a lockable door and with a partition sufficient to secure privacy.
I'd like to ask;
Are all schools compliant with the above regulations in relation to sanitary facilities?
If the answer is no, why not? And at what point did the council decide not to follow regulations that have been in place since 1967?