Data released by the Department for Education indicates a strong uptake for its scheme to provide free products to ensure students do not have to miss lessons because of their period.
It reveals 13,822 organisations - 68 per cent of all those eligible - have ordered free period products since the scheme began in January 2020.
This total includes 94 per cent of secondary schools and 90 per cent of post-16 organisations.
The DfE-funded scheme is intended to provide free period products to all students helping those that cannot afford them, that have forgotten to bring them or might need them unexpectedly.
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