Rotorua principals welcome Govt plan to provide free period products to schools
18 Feb, 2021 02:58 AM
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Stephanie Arthur-Worsop is the Rotorua Daily Post's News Directorstephanie.worsop@nzme.co.nzTheDailyPost
Supplying free period products in schools "should have happened years ago" and will go a long way to reducing the shame and increased absences associated with period poverty, a Rotorua principal says.
Prime Minister Jacinda
Ardern and Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti announced yesterday that from June, all primary, intermediate and secondary school and kura students would have access to free period products.
The announcement follows a successful Access to Period Products pilot programme, which has been running since Term 3 last year in 15 schools and kura in the Waikato region.