Published: March 12, 2019
The announcement of free sanitary products in English schools is a big win for activists – but women’s desperate needs are still going unheard
Period poverty campaigners have put two Twitter fingers up to those who claim hashtag activism doesn’t work. After an onslaught of online campaigns and petitions, an announcement is expected this Wednesday from the chancellor, Philip Hammond, stating he will fund a scheme to make free sanitary products available in English secondary schools from September. It’s the second big win for activists – the NHS has said that the products would be available to hospital patients from July.
It has certainly been a slog, akin to (for lack of a less obvious idiom) getting blood from a stone.
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