Flushed with Success?

Flushed with Success? is the Commissioner’s campaign for the Scottish Government to introduce new guidance on school toilets. With current legislation in the area nearly 50 years old, the campaign addresses the fact that standards of school toilets for pupils need to improve.

The campaign seeks to ensure that the quality of school facilities for children is monitored and guaranteed in the same way as for adults in the workplace. In so doing, it aims to make sure children and young people’s right to dignified and safe spaces is protected.

Setting the Standard for Scotland’s School Toilets

The campaign has multiple strands in order to help set a new standard for school toilets in Scotland:

  • The Commissioner will meet with key figures in policy making and those with relevant expertise in the autumn to consider the best approach to improving standards.
  • The Commissioner and his team will talk to young people to find out what they think needs to change. Find out more.

See Tam talk toilets on CBBC Newsround.

Getting your voice heard

The Commissioner is calling for three key changes to be made to set the standard for Scotland’s school toilets:

  • Scottish law that guides the quality and standards of school toilets should be updated to be fit for the 21st century
  • National guidance should be created on standards and qualities of school toilets for Local Authorities and Schools
  • The standards and qualities of school toilets should be regularly inspected and self-evaluated, so that schools can be supported to improve them where required.

If you agree with these calls, you can contact your councillor and MSP to let them know. Find out how you can do this.

Getting your school involved

Tam wants to help schools take part in a Flushed with Success? Self Assessment Project any time from now up until March 2014. He has designed an 8-step programme that will support pupils and school staff to look at how well their loos measure up.

The Commissioner wants to hear about great school toilets so he can let others know how well you are doing. He also wants to hear about the problems some schools are facing with school toilets and the plans being made to improve standards in partnership with pupils.

Contact the office

You can if:

  • your school would like to take part in a Self Assessment Project
  • you’d like to find out more about the projects.

Research

Read the research that informed the Flushed with Success? campaign.