School toilets in Scotland - is there any hope?

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I have complained to the council about mixed sex toilets at primary school and been fobbed off with a nonsense response. I'm in Scotland so realise this is being pushed hard from the highest levels of government. Is there any point in trying to pursue this further - has anyone done so and succeeded? Has anyone submitted any FOIs or contacted governors (do we even have these in Scotand? If so how can I find them) or anything that had any success? Other parents agree they're not keen but aren't really motivated to actually do anything about it. If anyone has any experience on this that they can share I'd be so grateful.

Where about in Scotland are you? I'm in central and y daughters schools don't have any mixed toilets. I'm not aware of any primary's around my area having mixed toilets. I don't think I'd be too happy if my DD9 was to share use share toilets for the simple fact she's hitting puberty now. P1 etc I don't think I'd be too bothered xx

Whole school use two cubicles. Don't want to say which part of Scotland but I think it has (secretly) become the norm here all of a sudden.

Primary school? Meh, it wouldn't bother me.

Must be a tiny school......

Not heard of mixed toilets in Primary but if you want action go through the schools Parent Council. Ask if staff toilets are now unisex too.

Find out what the policy is on young girls starting periods and anxiety around boys hearing them changing sanitary wear. Anxiety is a big problem in schools and they have a duty of care obviously to do what they can to educate the children to respect each others spaces. How can boys do this if they are being told not to!!!!

These stupid policies end up casting all boys are potentially dangerous and all girls as victims.

Do you mean it’s become the norm in your primary area,? I’m in North Lan and definitely separate male and female toilets. They do share hand washing area.

There was an Inverness School where the parents managed to get mixed sex provision reversed to single sex.

This may be useful www.highlandparentsgroup.co.uk

Good luck

Interesting, we're in England and our primary had a set of cubical at the back of the classroom for use of the whole class, so mixed gender.

I think that was only in the first 3 years, when they moved to the older side of primary they had girls and boys toilets.

Was more concerned about changing for PE. They all had to get changed in the class room together and by the later years the girls were rightly complaining, so told to change in the toilets or provided with those poncho things people use to change on the beach!

One of the high schools (faith school) we viewed had mixed gender toilets. They had basically removed a wall so the whole thing was open to the corridor, but cubical which had gaps above and below and shared washing in the middle. No privacy but possibly safer due to being in view.

And what about the children at the school who are going through varying stages of puberty who it may well bother ?

Girls and boys should have access to single sex toilet facilities - and I would be questioning the reasoning of making mixed only facilities.

I'm in central Scotland and as the toilets in our primary have been upgraded they've all been changed to mixed sex toilets. The cubicles all have ceiling to floor door and walls though.