List of council-funded women-only swimming sessions
Dear Canterbury City 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
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Your Request:
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.
There are none.
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?
There are none.
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.
No such document exists (see above answers).
4. Please tell me, do the council-funded leisure centres and sports
facilities provide single sex changing rooms and showers in your local
authority?
Currently our faciliites at Kingsmead are being refurbished, and temporary
mixed changing rooms are currently provided.
Facilities at Whitstable Sports Centre and Bay Sports Arena, which are
both owned by the education authority, have seperate single sex changing
facilities and showers.
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