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Most schools and colleges offer free period products to students
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Sanitary protection
Period poverty
Jan 31, 2022
94% of secondary schools provide free period products to students
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Period poverty
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Secondary
Jan 27, 2022
Free period product scheme for schools and colleges extended
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Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Nov 26, 2021
Ireland: Dublin City University provides free sanitary products for students
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Dublin City University
Ireland
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Disadvantaged students
Nov 4, 2021
Period poverty scheme shows power of IB CAS projects
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Period poverty
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Disadvantaged
May 8, 2021
Free period products: More than 10,000 schools still to apply
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Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Feb 9, 2021
Over three quarters of secondary schools order free period products
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Sanitary protection
Disadvantaged
Jan 21, 2021
Millions of young women promised free period products by government still not receiving items
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Period poverty
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Disadvantaged
Jan 21, 2021
Covid disruption leaves over half of £5.8m free sanitary products budget unclaimed
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Period poverty
Jan 21, 2021
DfE extends free sanitary products scheme for an extra year
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Period poverty
Dec 16, 2020
DfE extends free sanitary products scheme for an extra year
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Period poverty
Dec 16, 2020
Free period products: Six in 10 schools yet to sign up
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Period poverty
Oct 21, 2020
Thousands of teenagers experiencing period poverty since coronavirus pandemic
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Period poverty
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Coronavirus
Sep 30, 2020
Girls can get free tampons and sanitary pads at school – but just 60% have signed up
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Menstruation
Aug 28, 2020
Period poverty: Schools 'not aware' they can order free tampons
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Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Aug 27, 2020
83% schools not using DfE's free period product scheme
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Period poverty
Aug 4, 2020
Period poverty: how to fix the missed issue of lockdown
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Period poverty
Disadvantaged pupils
Sanitary protection
Jul 15, 2020
Periods don’t stop for pandemics
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Coronavirus
Period poverty
Menstruation
Sanitary protection
Disadvantaged
May 13, 2020
Scotland makes period products available for all
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Period poverty
Scotland
Sanitary protection
Feb 26, 2020
Scotland on course for period products 'world first'
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Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Scotland
Feb 25, 2020
Scotland: Free period products bill rejected by committee
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Scotland
Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Feb 5, 2020
New government scheme to provide free period products in schools
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Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Jan 21, 2020
Schools urged to listen to pupils' views in period poverty roll-out
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Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Disadvantaged pupils
Jan 20, 2020
Period poverty: Schools urged to order free menstrual products
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Period poverty
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Sanitary protection
Jan 20, 2020
Finally, kids will now get free period products at school
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Sanitary protection
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DfE
Jan 19, 2020
Free period products for all schools and colleges
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Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Disadvantaged
Jan 18, 2020
Period products scheme: impact assessment
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Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Disadvantaged
Jan 18, 2020
Period products in schools and colleges
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Period poverty
Disadvantaged
Sanitary protection
Jan 18, 2020
Period product scheme: the learner perspective
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Disadvantaged
Sanitary protection
Period poverty
Jan 18, 2020
Government rolls out scheme to introduce free period products into all state schools and colleges in England
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Period poverty
Disadvantaged pupils
Jan 18, 2020
Free period products for all schools and colleges in England
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Period poverty
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Disadvantaged pupils
Jan 18, 2020
Schools to offer free tampons and sanitary towels to beat period poverty
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DfE
Jan 18, 2020
DfE to finally rollout free sanitary products scheme next week
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DfE
Jan 18, 2020
Free period products to be available in schools and colleges in England
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DfE
Jan 18, 2020
Protect free access to period products in law
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Sanitary protection
Jan 15, 2020
Two-thirds of girls benefit from free period products
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Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Jan 8, 2020
Period poverty: £3.3m for free sanitary products in Wales
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Wales
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Period poverty
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Jan 3, 2020
Period poverty: Funding for free products extended
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Period poverty
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Funding
Dec 18, 2019
Why periods are as bad as Christmas Jumper Days
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Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Nov 16, 2019
Free sanitary products could become women’s right under pioneering Scots law
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Period poverty
Scotland
Sep 17, 2019
Free sanitary products in schools could become law
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Period poverty
Sep 16, 2019
Period poverty: Students get 8m free sanitary products
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Sanitary protection
Period poverty
Sep 13, 2019
Young girls forced to avoid after-school clubs and sports due to lack of sanitary products
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Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Aug 7, 2019
DfE opens bidding for free green period products
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Sanitary protection
Procurement
Jun 14, 2019
Period products scheme: impact assessment
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Sanitary protection
Procurement
Jun 14, 2019
DfE seeks company for £20m contract to supply sanitary products to schools
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DfE
Procurement
Sanitary protection
Jun 14, 2019
DfE seeks company for £20m contract to supply sanitary products to colleges
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Sanitary protection
Procurement
Colleges
Jun 14, 2019
Average schoolgirl takes three days off each term due to period-related issues, study finds
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School attendance
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Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Disadvantaged pupils
May 21, 2019
Scotland: Period poverty campaigners welcome Bill for free sanitary products
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Scotland
Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Apr 24, 2019
Scotland: Free sanitary products in schools and colleges may become a requirement
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Scotland
Apr 24, 2019
Government pledges free sanitary products for all primary schools
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Primary
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Period poverty
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DfE
Apr 17, 2019
Periods: Free sanitary products in primary schools aiming to tackle 'period poverty'
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Primary
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Period poverty
Funding
Apr 17, 2019
Free sanitary towels to be given to all primary school girls from early 2020
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Period poverty
Disadvantaged pupils
Primary
Funding
Apr 17, 2019
Free sanitary products in England’s primary schools from early 2020
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Period poverty
Disadvantaged pupils
Primary
Funding
Apr 16, 2019
UK to offer free sanitary products to primary school pupils
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Sanitary protection
Period poverty
Primary
Funding
Apr 16, 2019
Free sanitary products to be offered in primary schools
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Period poverty
Sanitary protection
Disadvantaged pupils
Primary
Funding
Apr 16, 2019
Free sanitary products in all primary schools
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Sanitary protection
Period poverty
Primary
Funding
DfE
Apr 16, 2019
Free sanitary products plan extended to primary girls
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Sanitary protection
DfE
Funding
Period poverty
Primary
Apr 16, 2019
DfE to fund free sanitary products in primary schools
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DfE
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Primary
Period poverty
Funding
Apr 16, 2019
Student funds free sanitary products on campus using university loan
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Sanitary protection
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UWE
Apr 12, 2019
Scotland: Periods aren't shameful – let’s talk about them in school
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Scotland
Apr 2, 2019
DfE ‘considering options’ for free sanitary products in primaries
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Primary
Mar 25, 2019
Period poverty funding must go to all schools, campaigners say
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Period poverty
Funding
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Mar 20, 2019
Free sanitary products and spare underwear to be made more available to all girls in Cardiff schools
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School attendance
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Wales
Mar 18, 2019
In the news 15 March 2019
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Mar 15, 2019
Ireland: Tampons in all public buildings to end ‘period poverty’
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Ireland
Period poverty
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Mar 14, 2019
Spring Statement: No new money for schools
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Mar 13, 2019
Free sanitary products for college and school students
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Secondary
Period poverty
Funding
Mar 13, 2019
Spring Statement: the 5 key concerns
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Early years
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Secondary
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Mar 13, 2019
Spring Statement 2019: what you need to know
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Secondary
Mar 13, 2019
ASCL response to the spring statement
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16-19
Mar 13, 2019
Victory for period poverty campaigners as Chancellor announces free sanitary products in schools
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Secondary
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Mar 13, 2019
Free sanitary products will be available in schools from this September
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Period poverty
Mar 13, 2019
Government to fund free sanitary products in colleges
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Funding
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Period poverty
Mar 13, 2019
Spring Statement 2019 – Free sanitary products will be available in schools from September
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Secondary
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Mar 13, 2019
Sanitary products to be given out for free in secondary schools, Chancellor confirms
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Secondary
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Mar 13, 2019
Free sanitary product scheme for English secondary schools announced by government
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Sanitary protection
Secondary
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Mar 13, 2019
Free sanitary products will be made available in all schools
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Period poverty
Sanitary protection
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Spring statement
Mar 13, 2019
Government to fund free sanitary products in secondary schools
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Sanitary protection
Secondary
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Mar 13, 2019
Kids at secondary school will now get tampons and sanitary towels free
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Sanitary protection
Mar 13, 2019
Free sanitary products for secondary pupils
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Mar 10, 2019
Government to announce free sanitary product scheme in English secondary schools
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Mar 9, 2019
In the news: 8 March 2019
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Mar 8, 2019
Newcastle College staff and students celebrate expansion of free sanitary products initiative
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Mar 6, 2019
Penny Mordaunt launches new funds to tackle period poverty globally
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Global
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Mar 4, 2019
More than a quarter of females have suffered from period poverty, survey finds
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Feb 19, 2019
Concerned Meghan Markle talks about how periods affect girls' education
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Jan 31, 2019
Scotland: Access to free sanitary products expanded with £4m funding
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Jan 17, 2019
Schoolgirl on period bled through clothes twice when staff denied her a toilet pass
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Jan 14, 2019
The responsibility to end period poverty lies with government – not teachers
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Period poverty
Funding
Sanitary protection
Jan 9, 2019
Girls are still missing school because of period poverty. There is an answer | Amika George
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Jan 8, 2019
'Period poverty' sanitary products 'improve school attendance'
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School attendance
Nov 28, 2018
Schoolgirls could soon be given free tampons in schools in bid to end period poverty
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Nov 14, 2018
Schoolgirls in Nottingham will be given free tampons in bid to beat period poverty
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Nov 13, 2018
Union to offer free sanitary products to students
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Unions
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Oct 10, 2018
UCU follows Scottish government in paying for sanitary products for learners
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Oct 10, 2018
UCU campaign provides free sanitary products for Newcastle College students
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Oct 9, 2018
Ireland: Free sanitary products to end ‘period poverty’
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Sep 21, 2018
More than 90% of girls in UK worry about going to school on their period
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Sep 20, 2018
Hinds backs under-fire Ofsted, and 5 other things we learned at education questions
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Damian Hinds
Ofsted
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Social Mobility Commission
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Sep 10, 2018
Ireland: Call to follow Scotland’s lead with free sanitary products
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Aug 29, 2018
Free sanitary products for students in Scotland
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Scotland
Sanitary protection
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Aug 24, 2018
UCU Scotland comment on the introduction of free sanitary products in universities
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Disadvantaged students
Aug 24, 2018
Every School, College And University In Scotland To Give Out Free Sanitary Products
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Scotland
Sanitary protection
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Aug 24, 2018
Scotland to offer free sanitary products to all students in world first
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Scotland
Scottish Government
Period poverty
Aug 24, 2018
Every school, college and university in Scotland to give out free sanitary products
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Aug 24, 2018
UCU Scotland comment on the introduction of free sanitary products in universities
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Scotland
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Aug 24, 2018
Free sanitary products roll out to Edinburgh schools
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Scotland
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Health
Aug 10, 2018
Ireland: Girls ignorant and ashamed of their periods
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Jun 18, 2018
7 things you need to know about period poverty
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School attendance
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Jun 5, 2018
Daily roundup 25 May: Active families, period poverty, and smoking ban
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May 25, 2018
DfE to ask heads and pupils about 'period poverty'
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Mar 20, 2018
Period poverty campaigners attack 'superficial' DfE research
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Mar 16, 2018
Absence rates by gender, age and free school meal status
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Girls
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Mar 15, 2018
Girls using toilet roll because they ‘can’t afford’ tampons, pads
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Scotland
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Mar 14, 2018
UK children missing school because of `period poverty´
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Dec 20, 2017
Students against period poverty: why young activists are seeing red
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Dec 19, 2017
The shame of period poverty is keeping British girls out of school. Let’s break the silence | Amika George
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Dec 19, 2017
Teenage girls in Wales are missing school when they have their period 'because they can't afford sanitary products'
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Wales Online
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Oct 18, 2017
Expecting schools to stump up cash for sanitary pads is 'harsh', Greening told
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TES
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Secondary schools
Oct 12, 2017
Putting an end to period poverty
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ATL
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Oct 9, 2017
Free sanitary pads for Kenya’s schoolgirls - why the government is doing the right thing
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Huffington Post
Sanitary protection
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Kenya
Jun 25, 2017
Lib Dems would give free sanitary products to school pupils to stop hidden problem of 'period poverty'
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May 9, 2017
Free sanitary products should be available in schools, say Liberal Democrats
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May 9, 2017
Lib Dems to provide free sanitary towels at school to fight 'period poverty'
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May 9, 2017
NUS to offer free tampons to all female students across the UK
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May 2, 2017
NUS Conference 2017: Students across the country will soon be offered free tampons
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Apr 26, 2017
Government may give out free sanitary products to poor pupils
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Girls
Mar 22, 2017
Research reveals affect of poor education about periods and puberty
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Mar 22, 2017
Today’s education questions in parliament: 3 things we learned
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Mar 20, 2017
Greening to 'look at' free sanitary products for poorest pupils
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TES
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PSHE
Mar 20, 2017
Girls from poorer families in England struggle to afford sanitary protection
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Guardian
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Secondary schools
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Girls
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Mar 17, 2017
Never mind free tampons – what schoolgirls need is education about periods | Chella Quint
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Mar 16, 2017
Leeds girls are missing school because they can’t afford tampons and sanitary towels
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Mar 15, 2017
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