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Promoting better toilets for pupils

What you can do - Resources

This section has resources to help schools keep their toilets clean and in good condition. It also has a guide to help schools manage pupils who have bladder or bowel problems. Most of the documents will open in PDF Format in a new window, so you can print the resource.

You might also find the Printable Factsheets and the School Management pages useful.

Checklists

The Bog Standard campaign has produced a set of Toilet Checklists for Schools to photocopy and use. Their aim is to promote high standards in the cleanliness and maintenance of pupils’ toilets and to involve pupils in their management. It is recommended that school management and/or pupils carry out a quick toilet check on the pupils’ toilets 3 - 4 times a day throughout normal usage hours, and to carry out more comprehensive checks once daily, monthly and termly. The checklists have a space at the top to record which set of toilets is being inspected.

The TOILET CHECKLISTS FOR SCHOOLS (containing the full set of checklists, instructions on how to use them, and guidance and hints for schools) can be downloaded and printed out as one document.

The Quick Toilet Checklist is designed for quick spot checks by pupils. Each week a fresh checklist should be displayed for the week within the toilet/washroom area, one per set of toilets. Each set of toilets should be inspected and signed three to four times a day (depending on the length and organisation of the school day), including after peak periods of use. The daily checklist is more comprehensive than the ‘quick toilet check’ and it can replace one of these quick inspections.

The checklists are also produced singly to allow individual printing and photocopying of the required checklists and instructions:

The following checklists are in pdf format

Cleaning and hygiene

Good Practice Guidance for Cleaning of Schools
(Full updated version including toilets)
A good practice guide for cleaning the whole school, as well as cleaning the toilets, which can be given to cleaning contractors. It also includes some basic printable forms for monitoring cleaning and problems.
Good Practice Guidance for Cleaning of School Toilets
(Updated toilets only version)
This advisory information is for the cleaning of school toilets only, which schools can give to cleaning contractors.
Detailed cleaning guide of school toilets for cleaning staff
Guidance on cleaning standards and detailed methods of cleaning.
Deep Cleaning
Guidance on deep cleaning - to supplement regular, standard cleaning
Hygiene and infection control in schools - This can be useful for any school but may be particularly helpful for school nurses as it contains references to scientific literature.

Bladder and bowel problems

Toileting/continence guidance notes for schools

Summary Checklist for Schools of Toilets and Drinking Water Standards

You can download and print a one page summary checklist for schools to check whether your school meets acceptable standards for toilet and drinking water facilities and access policies for pupils.

Teaching Materials for KSI

KSI My School Toilets

A simple teaching session to explore pupils’ feelings about their school toilets and to encourage pupils from an early age to adopt good behaviour in the toilets.

KSI Our bodies…and what happens to the food we eat

A session (or sessions) to teach children what we need to eat, drink and do in order to have a healthy bowel and bladder.

Why me? Teaching Materials to Explore Sensitive Issues, Including Incontinence

Curriculum-linked teaching and learning materials to enable teachers and pupils to explore sensitive issues, including incontinence problems as part of PSHE at primary and secondary level.

Why me? Teaching Pack

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