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Parents say children miss school over ‘horror' toilets
The Independent
|June 15, 2025
More than one in three parents say they have been forced to raise concerns about the state of the toilets at their child’s school, a new survey has suggested.
The poll of 2,000 parents of school-aged children found that issues with toilet facilities are so widespread that around 10 percent report that their child has asked to miss school due to concerns about using them.
Around one in six (17 per cent) parents rated the toilets at their child’s school as unclean, according to the survey for the charity Parentkind. One parent reported that their children felt like they were “stepping into a horror movie” when using the toilets, while another mentioned their child had encountered cockroaches in the school facilities.
This story is from the June 15, 2025 edition of The Independent.
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