Predictions for when Bridget Phillipson will lay the EHRC code of practice before parliament (with poll)

Realistically, alarms will be pulled constantly. Fire alarms already have this issue. I dont know what the solutions are, I'm afraid.

aghh I need to get my report into her. I keep finding stuff to add and not taking enough stuff out. It’s War and Peace.

Whilst going through my research, I forgot about this info. I had been looking at what schools were doing to try and tackle mixed sex private toilet cubicles. This is from America (hence the language) but they sell to the U.K. It’s hardly a glowing endorsement of mixed sex loos:

Smart Sensor Technology Is Keeping Single-Use Bathrooms in Schools Secure
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Single-use restrooms in schools are becoming prime real estate for students to vape, vandalize, and more due to the lack of monitoring and witnesses in these restrooms. The shift of schools switching to single-use or gender-neutral restrooms further complicates the security of the school restrooms. This often leads to school restrooms being used for prohibited activities, such as loitering, bullying and aggression, unpermitted vaping, and even as extreme as drug usage and sexual activity. Devices like the HALO Smart Sensor are designed to help keep all school bathrooms safe through:

• Vape and THC detection
• Aggression and vandalism detection
• Motion and occupancy detection
• Alerts for Keywords, Panic Buttons and Occupancy counts
• Keeping bathrooms secure while also protecting the privacy of individuals

I have researched these systems in the U.K.
Understandably pupils don’t want tech monitoring their sounds or being heat mapped inside the toilet cubicle and feel creeped out by it. There’s also misuse, of course. So much so, the systems are often turned off. But this is the kind of thing that will have to happen in mixed sex toilets in society.

You could just have single sex toilets within a single sex environment. You could then have gaps below and above the door and partitions. Amongst the many (life saving for certain disabilities, medical emergencies) advantages of this is there’s a chance a person will hand you loo paper if yours has run out which the alarm can’t do.

Debating whether to keep the alarm bit in. What do people think? There’s quite a few uk schools using it now in their private mixed sex cubicles (with outer, shared mix sex handbasins). I think they are a good example illustration of what will go on in society as children have already been the guinea pigs to the designs transactivists think is the solution.

I think this.

v clear single sex spaces within. I also detect there’s more pressure to get the send stuff out first. (The leak this week suggests a headache though potentially v useful idea for sendcos if you teach end of primary.) there was a rumour that’s coming out next week.

how often do ministers take on women and equalities AND education?

Maybe if Reform do well in Gorton the cabinet will be more inclined to push it through. If the Greens do well, maybe not.

Very much. the only strategy is delay, in the vain hope somethign might change? It won't, it can't. They are running out of road.

She can't amend the EHRC guidance though. She can send it back - and clearly say WHY she is sending it back, and they MAY send back an update.

Or she can accept it. What she can't do is sit on it forever.

That would be what, July if Starmer quits right after the May elections?

Didn't she finally release the school guidance, albeit with amendments? So I think she'll let that go down then release it after the local elections, possibly with amendments.

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yy I agree. She will not do this.

She won't do it. I reckon we will have to wait for a cabinet reshuffle.