Mixed Sex Toilets

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Dear Monkseaton High School, Whitley Bay,

This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act. Please disclose the following:

Do you have mixed sex (also known as unisex or gender neutral) toilets for pupils? Yes/No

If yes, please:

a. list location of toilet blocks and disclose for each toilet block:
b. number of mixed sex toilets with shared handwashing facilities
c. number of mixed sex toilets with self-contained hand washing in each toilet
d. number of toilets in separate girls toilet blocks
e. number of toilets and number of urinals in separate boys toilet blocks

For stand alone separate single mixed sex (also known as unisex or gender neutral) toilets for student use, please disclose the:
f. number of stand alone accessible toilets on site
g. number of stand alone toilets on site, not fitted out for accessible use

Please provide the following information:

h. current policies or rules on use of toilets

i. documents/reports presented to the governing body on:
i)converting single sex toilets to mixed sex toilets, and
ii)discipline problems relating to use of pupil toilets.

j. Have you reported any sexual assaults to the police 2021 to date?
Yes/No

k. If yes, please state year, and location(s) of the alleged sexual assault(s).

l. For new build and converted mixed sex (also known as unisex or gender neutral) toilets in your school, please disclose:
i) Risk assessments
ii) equality impact assessments

m. For converted toilets, date(s) of conversion and cost of work

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Accessibility
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Please acknowledge receipt of this request.

Many thanks for your assistance.

Yours faithfully,
Ms Paton

Marie-Anne Dowson, Monkseaton High School, Whitley Bay

Dear Monkseaton High School, Whitley Bay,

This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
Please disclose the following:

Do you have mixed sex (also known as unisex or gender neutral)  toilets
for pupils? Ye

If yes, please:

a. list location of toilet blocks and disclose for each toilet block: we
do not have toilet blocks we have individual self contained toilet units
with hand washing facilities.
b. number of mixed sex toilets with shared handwashing facilities 0
c. number of mixed sex toilets with self-contained hand washing in each
toilet 6
 d. number of toilets in separate girls toilet blocks e. number of toilets
and number of urinals in separate boys toilet blocks we do not have
separate toilet blocks

For stand alone separate single mixed sex (also known as unisex or gender
neutral)  toilets for student use, please disclose the:
f.  number of stand alone accessible toilets on site 6
g.  number of stand alone toilets on site, not fitted out for accessible
use 40

Please provide the following information:

h. current policies or rules on use of toilets there is no written policy,
students are asked to use the toilet before school, at break or at lunch,
with permission they can also go during lessons.

i.  documents/reports presented to the governing body on:
 i)converting single sex toilets to mixed sex toilets,  no reports /
documents
and  ii)discipline problems relating to use of pupil toilets. none
presented to governors

j. Have you reported any sexual assaults to the police 2021 to date?
No

k. If yes, please state year, and location(s) of the alleged sexual
assault(s).

l. For new build and converted mixed sex (also known as unisex or gender
neutral) toilets in your school, please disclose:
 i) Risk assessments n/a
ii) equality impact assessments

m.  For converted toilets, date(s) of conversion and cost of work n/a

Time limit: You should regard the 20 working day limit for answering FOIs
as a ‘long stop’, in other words the latest possible date on which you may
issue a response (ICO guidance on time limits in FOIA Section 10).

Excessive costs: If this request needs refining to make it possible for
you to comply without incurring excessive costs (FOIA Section 12),
consider ways in which you can help me to refine my request so you can
answer without exceeding the appropriate limit. Please let me know as soon
as possible, so you will be able to make the disclosures promptly, within
the Section 10 time limit.

Redactions:
Please ensure that where you deem it necessary under s.40 of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 to redact personal data or any other information,
please redact the minimum necessary (eg redact an individual’s name not
their organisation in email addresses)  and send me the rest of the
material, explaining the legal grounds for each redaction.

Accessibility
If the information is already published, please provide the link to the
document and let me know the relevant page number or agenda item.

Please acknowledge receipt of this request.

Many thanks for your assistance.

Yours faithfully,
Ms Paton

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