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States that continence or menstrual difficulties are not an NHS matter requiring medical evidence from local surgeries, and warns against risks of dehydration, withheld urine or stool, classroom incontinence, and harm to mental wellbeing. Concludes that the surgery will not provide separate notes and confirms all children should access toilets when needed for urinary, defecation, or menstrual reasons.",{"@graph":63,"@context":119},[64,80,102],{"@type":65,"itemListElement":66},"BreadcrumbList",[67,71,74,77],{"item":68,"name":69,"@type":70,"position":9},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":72,"name":10,"@type":70,"position":73},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/",2,{"item":75,"name":41,"@type":70,"position":76},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/letters/",3,{"item":78,"name":59,"@type":70,"position":79},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/toilet-pass-letter-confirmation-for-toilet-access-policy/174605/",4,{"url":78,"name":59,"@type":81,"image":82,"author":87,"headline":59,"publisher":90,"fileFormat":93,"inLanguage":57,"description":61,"dateModified":94,"datePublished":95,"encodingFormat":93,"isAccessibleForFree":96,"interactionStatistic":97},"DigitalDocument",{"url":83,"@type":84,"width":85,"height":86},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/toilet-pass-letter-confirmation-for-toilet-access-policy/174605.png","ImageObject",442,249,{"name":88,"@type":89},"Xiajie","Person",{"url":68,"name":91,"@type":92},"DocShare","Organization","application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document","2026-10-19","2026-09-02",true,{"@type":98,"interactionType":99,"userInteractionCount":101},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":100},"ViewAction",6,{"@type":103,"mainEntity":104},"FAQPage",[105,111,115],{"name":106,"@type":107,"acceptedAnswer":108},"Why does the letter challenge the requirement for a doctor’s note for a “toilet pass”?","Question",{"text":109,"@type":110},"The letter argues that access to safe, timely personal hygiene is a dignity need and should not require separate medical paperwork for each pupil.","Answer",{"name":112,"@type":107,"acceptedAnswer":113},"Does the letter say that continence or menstrual difficulties are an NHS matter for surgeries to evidence?",{"text":114,"@type":110},"No. It states it is not an NHS matter to provide evidence of a child’s continence or menstrual difficulties for the purpose of toilet access documentation.",{"name":116,"@type":107,"acceptedAnswer":117},"Will the surgery provide separate notes for individual pupils to use the toilet?",{"text":118,"@type":110},"No. It confirms that XXX surgery will not be providing separate notes for specific pupils to allow toilet use.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":78,"og:type":121,"og:title":59,"og:site_name":91,"og:description":61},"article",{"robots":123,"canonical":78},"index,follow",{"doc_id":125,"site_id":56},174605,1788314940,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":128},{"doc_id":125,"user_id":129,"nickname":88,"user_avatar":130,"doc_module":9,"category_id":40,"category_name":41,"doc_title":59,"doc_description":61,"doc_content":131,"file_id":132,"file_url":133,"file_type":134,"file_size":135,"view_count":101,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":9,"is_downloadable":9,"audit_status":9,"page_count":9,"language":136,"language_code":57,"site_id":56,"html_lang":57,"table_of_contents":137,"faqs":138,"seo_title":139,"seo_description":61,"update_tm":126,"read_time":4},8814010472675,"https://avatar.qwps.com/avatar/WGlhamll","Dear Mr xxx\nIt has recently come to our attention that xxxx School has changed its toilet access policy to state that a Doctor’s note should be provided in order to allow the provision of a “toilet pass” to pupils. This has been done without consultation with the local surgeries.\nAccess to safe, timely and appropriate personal hygiene is a considered to be essential to human dignity. This is particularly important to people who have periods, which often vary in timing and heaviness, especially in the years surrounding menarche.\nWhile discipline issues are important and a small percentage of pupils abuse their right to access personal hygiene, this is not a medical issue. It is also not an NHS matter to provide evidence of a child’s lack of continence, urinary or faecal urgency or menstrual difficulties. It is not dignified for a pupil to be singled out as having toileting difficulties and there are significant potential medical ramifications in either deliberately dehydrating to prevent the need for a toilet or in withholding either stool or urine and both can worsen continence issues. It is also significantly harmful to a young person’s mental wellbeing to risk an episode of incontinence within the classroom or to prevent them accessing menstrual hygiene, leading to soiling.\nIn addition, especially in these uniquely challenging times, where both workload and finance are significantly strained in all public sectors, it is not possible for us to take on additional non-funded work. We are also not prepared to charge the children or their families for paperwork to allow them basic dignity.\nAs such, XXX surgery will not be providing separate notes to specific pupils to allow them to use the toilet. Whether an individual child can delay their needs until the end of a lesson is a matter for the school, the child and their family. If you feel it necessary, please accept this letter as confirmation that we consider that all children have a need to access a toilet when they need to use it for urinary, defecation or menstrual reasons.","cbCaisP0RhMeaRRC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisP0RhMeaRRC","docx",23719,"English","# Toilet access policy response\n## Dignity and hygiene importance\n## Limits of medical evidence and NHS role\n## Risks of delaying toileting needs\n## Workload, funding, and paperwork boundaries\n## Confirmation and next steps","[{\"question\":\"Why does the letter challenge the requirement for a doctor’s note for a “toilet pass”?\",\"answer\":\"The letter argues that access to safe, timely personal hygiene is a dignity need and should not require separate medical paperwork for each pupil.\"},{\"question\":\"Does the letter say that continence or menstrual difficulties are an NHS matter for surgeries to evidence?\",\"answer\":\"No. It states it is not an NHS matter to provide evidence of a child’s continence or menstrual difficulties for the purpose of toilet access documentation.\"},{\"question\":\"Will the surgery provide separate notes for individual pupils to use the toilet?\",\"answer\":\"No. It confirms that XXX surgery will not be providing separate notes for specific pupils to allow toilet use.\"}]","Toilet pass letter - confirmation for toilet access policy | DOCX"]