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Feminine care forschools and school boards

Feminine-care service for schools (k-12) is a scheduled washroom program, dispensers, sanitary disposal and restocking, from $1–3 per employee per year in product cost. Provincial school programs made free provision the norm. What boards need now is a supplier who can run it across dozens of buildings on a term-time calendar.

How service runs for schools (k-12)

School provision is now funded or required in several provinces, and the operating pattern that works is washroom-based, ambient availability. No office visit, no gatekeeper. Vandal-resistant single-vend units survive school washrooms; the service calendar follows the school year, with a September surge allowance and summer suspension built in rather than billed as changes.

Sector need

Board-scale rollout

Dozens of schools, one program. Consolidated ordering, per-school delivery, and a single point of contact for every principal's question. A typical board conversion runs three to five schools per week per route, so a 40-school district is fully live inside a term. Principals get a one-page service summary; the board office gets the consolidated ledger.

Mandate fit

Provincial school programs

Most provinces now fund free products in public schools — BC and Nova Scotia since 2019. We supply to the program's spec and keep the records the funding asks for. Funding formats differ. Some provinces ship product to boards, others reimburse purchases. And our invoicing adapts to match the program's paperwork so claims go through on the first submission.

Recommended

High-capacity free-vend

High-capacity units in high-traffic washrooms, floor-size bins, two-week term-time cycle that pauses automatically each summer. September gets a surge allowance built into the calendar rather than billed as extra visits, and the summer pause is automatic. No one has to remember to cancel July service at forty buildings.

Reporting

Program-compliant records

Dated per-school service logs formatted for program reporting, evidence the funding was delivered where it was meant to go. When a trustee or parent council asks whether the funding reached washrooms, the answer is a dated per-school report generated from the service log. Not a purchasing summary that stops at the warehouse door.

What the paperwork has to show

Whoever asks. A labour affairs officer, an accreditation surveyor, a tenant auditing CAM charges. The question is the same: can you show the routine, not just the result. Four artifacts answer it. Which stalls carry a covered receptacle, including accessible and single-occupancy rooms. The named service schedule per washroom. Dated visit records with fill levels, so an isolated overflow reads as an exception rather than the pattern. And the provider's downstream handling statement for the collected waste. A contracted route generates all four automatically; informal top-up arrangements generate none of them, and they cannot be reconstructed after a complaint lands.

Setting up a program for schools (k-12)

Rollout starts with a walked washroom audit, because floor plans undercount: single-occupancy and accessible rooms get missed, and the count is the bill of materials. Dispensers and covered bins then go in during one pass per building, and the service schedule starts the same week. The gap between install and first restock is where programs stumble. Weeks three to eight are the measurement window: every visit logs consumption per washroom, and by week eight real usage replaces the launch estimate, usually tightening two or three washrooms and relaxing several others. Budget lands near $1–3 per employee per year in product, with dispensers a one-time item and service priced per bin per visit.

Bright empty school hallway with washroom entrance