When designing toilet facilities for educational institutions, getting your head around the rules and regulations can be a minefield of contradictory information, with several inconsistencies between different versions of governmental guidance.
Confusion arises from the dissolution of the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) in 2007. It briefly became the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), before reorganising into the Department for Education (DfE) in 2010.
However, when looking for “school toilet regulations” online, the 2007 DfES Toilets in Schools guidance document still features towards the top of search results, despite the guidance being 10 years out of date.
The latest advice is contained within the DfE’s 2015 document, Advice on Standards for School Premises (see further information).
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