List of council-funded women-only swimming sessions

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Dear Swale Borough Council,

1. Please list all council-funded public swimming pools that provide 'women only' or 'ladies only' (or similarly described) swimming sessions in your local authority.

2. Which of the listed facilities that advertise 'women only' or 'ladies only' (or similarly described) swimming sessions, provide an environment that is exclusively single sex, i.e., for females only, and which facilities provide a session that is mixed sex, i.e., do not exclude males who identify as a woman?

3. Please send me a copy of the council policy or policies that cover the provision of 'women only' or 'ladies only' (or similarly described) swimming sessions.

4. Please tell me, do the council-funded leisure centres and sports facilities provide single sex changing rooms and showers in your local authority?

Yours faithfully,
Mrs F. McGinty

FOI (SBC), Swale Borough Council

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Elaine Ball, Swale Borough Council

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Dear Mrs McGinty

 

In reply to your Freedom of Information Act Request, please see the
attached.

 

 

 

Kind regards

 

Elaine Ball

Leisure & Technical Services Admin Officer

 

Swale Borough Council | Swale House | East Street | Sittingbourne | Kent |
ME10 3HT

(01795) 417312 | [1][email address] | [2]www.swale.gov.uk

 

 

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Dear Elaine Ball,

Thanks for your response. In the This-Girl-Can sessions, aimed at women and girls, are men who identify as women allowed to participate?

Yours sincerely,
Mrs F. McGinty

Elaine Ball, Swale Borough Council

Thank you for your e-mail.

 

I am out of the office until Thursday 28th September 2023. If your enquiry
is urgent please contact Karyn Barnes on 01795 417453 or e-mail
[email address].

 

I will respond to your e-mail upon my return.

 

Kind regards

Elaine

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Elaine Ball, Swale Borough Council

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Dear Mrs McGinty

 

In reply to your e-mail please see below the response received from the
Facility Manager of the Sheppey Leisure Complex.

 

This-Girl-Can sessions allows transgendered females, men that identity as
a women to take part, subject to there being no safeguarding issues.

 

 

Kind regards

 

Elaine Ball

Leisure & Technical Services Admin Officer

 

Swale Borough Council | Swale House | East Street | Sittingbourne | Kent |
ME10 3HT

(01795) 417312 | [1][email address] | [2]www.swale.gov.uk

 

 

 

 

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