Access to Free Period Products Consultation

Key Lessons

The lead officer highlighted that their key recommendations for future surveys would be:

• allowing time to get the survey questions right and testing the questions out on others to make sure they make sense;
• allowing time for distributing promotion materials;
• and using different methods of promotion to reach a wide audience.

Feeding Back the Results

395 responses were received which was crucial to the rollout of free period products in Shetland. For example 86% of respondents said that ordering products online for postal delivery was best, so an ordering service was introduced alongside community venue provision. A media release on the launch of the service was issued and a summary of the consultation was made available on the website so that participants could see the results, and how this informed provision.