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Period Poverty
Every school and college can now get free period products
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The free products should not be available for everyone, just like I can't swan into my local foodbank for a free bag of groceries. Families on a low income could be provided with vouchers which would be accepted at any supermarket or chemist. I will bet that the kids who are given money to buy sanitary products by their parents will still take advantage of the free products and spend their 'pocket money' on something else!
//NJ - how many daughters do you have?//
And that's relevant in what way, exactly, to my argument? You suggest that your daughter, if "taken short" unexpectedly, would have to spend her dinner money on buying sanitary products in such circumstances. Whether I have no daughters or ten of them I can see that the easiest way to avoid that problem is to make sure she is prepared for such an eventuality.
In any case, in the circumstances you describe, even if money was not the issue, how would it be sensible to expect her to roam round looking for a shop? Even if she had £100 in her pocket she would still be in difficulty. The responsibility for keeping young girls prepared in these circumstances rests with their parents, not with the school, not with the local education authority and not with the government. This scheme is not about making some sanitary ware available in an emergency. It is to provide all girls at school with free sanitary products and it is ridiculous. You might as well say that all children should be provided with free shoes because some turn up with holes in their soles.
And that's relevant in what way, exactly, to my argument? You suggest that your daughter, if "taken short" unexpectedly, would have to spend her dinner money on buying sanitary products in such circumstances. Whether I have no daughters or ten of them I can see that the easiest way to avoid that problem is to make sure she is prepared for such an eventuality.
In any case, in the circumstances you describe, even if money was not the issue, how would it be sensible to expect her to roam round looking for a shop? Even if she had £100 in her pocket she would still be in difficulty. The responsibility for keeping young girls prepared in these circumstances rests with their parents, not with the school, not with the local education authority and not with the government. This scheme is not about making some sanitary ware available in an emergency. It is to provide all girls at school with free sanitary products and it is ridiculous. You might as well say that all children should be provided with free shoes because some turn up with holes in their soles.
I have read all the posts, and as expected, the argument takes two easily identifiable sides.
The first, is that free sanitary protection should be available for all young women who need it - and I am firmly in that camp.
The second provides variations of the same argument - that parents should provide, even those on benefits.
That, in my view, is the argument of the privileged who assume that everyone else takes their parental responsibilities as seriously as they do - and can't understand any parent who does not provide this basic necessity for their daughter(s).
The fact is, a large number of parents simply don't provide - not because they weigh up the cost of cigarettes and a mobile, and decide to spend on those.
It's because they simply don't possess the thought processes to work out their priorities.
Is that wrong? of course it is - but are we going to let young women suffer simply because their parents don't have the wherewithal to educate ad support them properly about their periods?
I think that is barbaric in a civilised society.
If some take advantage of the system who don't need it, then I can live with that, because that applied to any benefit of any kind anywhere for anyone.
I would rather have a few freeloaders riding the system tha for any young woman to be embarrassed and humiliated by her inability to deal with this basic biological function in which she has no choice.
The first, is that free sanitary protection should be available for all young women who need it - and I am firmly in that camp.
The second provides variations of the same argument - that parents should provide, even those on benefits.
That, in my view, is the argument of the privileged who assume that everyone else takes their parental responsibilities as seriously as they do - and can't understand any parent who does not provide this basic necessity for their daughter(s).
The fact is, a large number of parents simply don't provide - not because they weigh up the cost of cigarettes and a mobile, and decide to spend on those.
It's because they simply don't possess the thought processes to work out their priorities.
Is that wrong? of course it is - but are we going to let young women suffer simply because their parents don't have the wherewithal to educate ad support them properly about their periods?
I think that is barbaric in a civilised society.
If some take advantage of the system who don't need it, then I can live with that, because that applied to any benefit of any kind anywhere for anyone.
I would rather have a few freeloaders riding the system tha for any young woman to be embarrassed and humiliated by her inability to deal with this basic biological function in which she has no choice.
Been away so only just seen this. It seems to me to be an unnecessary expense for already struggling schools when I have never, ever worked in a school where girls who started their period unexpectedly could not get emergency sanitary products. As far as I was aware at the time these were also dished out to kids who couldn't afford them on a 'needs' basis; so why this system can't simply continue baffles me.
//It won't be an additional burden as it is a separate budget for these products alone,...//
You're obviously an accountant and not a General Manager, mamy. "Separate budgets" still have to be funded. In this case all the funds - whatever budget they are appointed to - come from the taxpayer. It may help the school balance its books but it doesn't help the Exchequer balance his.
You're obviously an accountant and not a General Manager, mamy. "Separate budgets" still have to be funded. In this case all the funds - whatever budget they are appointed to - come from the taxpayer. It may help the school balance its books but it doesn't help the Exchequer balance his.
