“Providing better school toilets as standard across Scotland is a matter of respect and dignity for children and young people,” said Tam Baillie.
He was speaking at the launch of a campaign demanding urgent action from the Scottish government.
Current legislation dates back to the mid-1960s and does not demand that school inspectors look at toilets, he explained.
“There is no process to ensure compliance with even basic standards and no-one systematically challenges the standards of school toilets when they do not come up to scratch.”
More than half – 56 per cent – of pupils never used school toilets or only used them if they “really had to”, according to a survey of more than 2,000 S1 to S6 children by Ipsos MORI in March this year.
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