Free Period Products Consultation Summary

Access in buildings

Question 3 focussed on where products should be if being picked up from a public building.

A graph showing the total number of responses for each answer choice and the percentage of responses for each choice.

386 answers were provided to this question, with 9 skipped.

  • 79.79% chose in toilets including male/female/disabled and changing places (308 responses in total).
  • 35.49% selected somewhere out the way (137 responses in total).
  • 33.68% chose on a display stand that is easy to access (130 responses in total).
  • 19.43% chose reception areas (75 responses in total).
  • 4.40% chose ‘other’ (17 responses in total).

17 people answered ‘other’. Being available discreetly was important with 5 people mentioning this in addition to the options above. Clear signage and visibility of products or where to get products was mentioned by 3 people as were toilets. This included both male and female toilets. Other areas mentioned were changing rooms, somewhere visible in the food bank and that there should be options.