Period dignity officer to be employed by South Ayrshire Council

A workers member selling entry to interval merchandise inside South Ayrshire is to be appointed by council chiefs.

The event employee will search to advertise dignity and "minimise embarrassment" for these accessing such gadgets.

It follows the high-profile appointment of an analogous worker in Dundee, whose announcement sparked a backlash resulting from him being male.

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova branded the appointment of Jason Grant as "absurd", and was amongst a raft of critics questioning why a person needs to be in such a place.

On Monday, new laws got here into pressure in Scotland defending the appropriate to free sanitary merchandise.

The Interval Merchandise Act means councils and training suppliers need to make the free gadgets out there to those that want them.

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Labour MSP Monica Lennon campaigned for the laws which was unanimously backed within the Scottish Parliament in 2020.

Funding is being offered by the Scottish Authorities to help such roles and South Ayrshire Council has confirmed it is going to take up its allocation.

A spokesperson mentioned: "South Ayrshire Council is dedicated to dignity inside the provision of interval merchandise.

"One of many rules set out in our interval merchandise supply assertion is that “we are going to promote dignity in accessing merchandise and search wherever attainable to take care of privateness issues and make affordable effort to minimise embarrassment”.

"There may be provision inside interval product funding from the Scottish Authorities for staffing to help interval product work.

"We need to recruit a growth employee and this recruitment might be carried out according to equality laws."

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