The Independent reported a new campaign to be launched at the House of Commons this week called Bog Standard. The report quoted children's views, succinctly expressed by one 14-year-old: "I walk in, look around, then back straight out," she says. "I'd rather wait six hours till I get home!" It told of the official concerns about constipation, infection risk and bullying. It also highlighted the level of wilful ignorance, reporting that some heads admitted they have never been into their pupils' toilets.
There was good news too, in the form of radical changes that worked.
Bramhall High School in Stockport has introduced unisex toilets. A wall separating the girls' and boys' loos was knocked down, and new cubicles with full height doors installed. The doors from the toilet area to the corridor are kept open all the time. "It has made it a much safer place," says the head teacher, John Peckham.
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