Mixed Sex Toilets for Pupils

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Dear Queensbury Academy, Dunstable,

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:

1. list location of toilet blocks and disclose for each toilet block:

2. number of mixed sex toilets with shared handwashing facilities
3. number of mixed sex toilets with self-contained hand washing in each toilet
4. number of toilets in separate girls toilet blocks
5. 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:
6. number of stand alone accessible toilets on site
7. number of stand alone toilets on site, not fitted out for accessible use

Please provide the following information:

8. current policies or rules on use of toilets

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

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

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

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

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

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Many thanks for your assistance.

Yours faithfully,

Pat Kokot

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Kim Morena (Queensbury), Queensbury Academy, Dunstable

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Dear Pat,

 

When you ask for details of mixed sex toilets do you include disabled
toilets or is it the main student toilets you need details of.

 

Regards

 

Kim Morena
Business Manager 

Email: [1][email address]

 

 

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Dear Queensbury Academy, Dunstable,

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:

1. list location of toilet blocks and disclose for each toilet block:

2. number of mixed sex toilets with shared handwashing facilities
   3. number of mixed sex toilets with self-contained hand washing in each
toilet
   4. number of toilets in separate girls toilet blocks
   5. 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:
   6. number of stand alone accessible toilets on site
   7. number of stand alone toilets on site, not fitted out for accessible
use

Please provide the following information:

8. current policies or rules on use of toilets

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

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

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

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

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

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,

Pat Kokot

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Dear Kim Morena (Queensbury),

without disabled toilets. Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Pat Kokot

Kim Morena (Queensbury), Queensbury Academy, Dunstable

Hi Pat,

Thank you for your response. We do not have mixed sex toilets at Queensbury.

Regards

Kim Morena
Business Manager

Email: [email address]

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Dear Kim Morena (Queensbury),

Many thanks for the reply and the information.

Yours sincerely,

Pat Kokot