Teachers raised concerns that girls were skipping lessons while menstruating because they could not afford tampons and pads. | CBCNews
Posted: Mar 13, 2019 11:04 AM ET | Last Updated: March 13
Free feminine hygiene products will be made available to girls attending schools in England, 'in response to rising concern by head teachers that some girls are missing school attendance due to inability to afford sanitary products,' the finance minister says. England will fund free sanitary products for secondary school and college students after teachers raised concern that some girls were skipping lessons while menstruating because they could not afford tampons and pads.
"In response to rising concern by head teachers that some girls are missing school attendance due to inability to afford sanitary products, I have decided to fund the provision of free sanitary products in secondary schools and colleges in England from the next school year," Finance Minister Philip Hammond said in a budget update on Wednesday., which follows a group of Indian women fighting the stigma surrounding menstruation and learning to manufacture their own sanitary pads.
It also follows a move by the National Health Service in England to provide free tampons and sanitary pads
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