Unisex school toilets

Staff at a Swansea school have been showing off their latest designer facility -- a unisex toilet area where the washing facilities - but not the cubicles - are shared. The school says the new arrangements are reducing the amount of bullying.

But some parents have questioned the decision to install them, as Tom Sheldrick reports.

The mother of a girl who attends Morriston Comprehensive School told ITV News that younger children may be intimidated having to use unisex toilets.

Emma Rees, who has a 13-year-old daughter, at the school says she's told her not to use the toilets. She says young girls need their privacy in toilets.

Morriston Comprehensive School headteacher Wayne Newton says the unisex toilets have helped reduce 'traditional' problems such as bullying and loitering. He told ITV News that the use of CCTV cameras in the communal areas meant they are also safer than the old single-sex loos.

Pupils at Morriston Comprehensive School told ITV News the introduction of unisex toilets allowed them to show how mature they are. They said teachers monitor the loos to make sure no one is bullied.

Parents at Morriston Comprehensive School in Swansea are advising their children not to use the toilets after they were changed to unisex.

The toilets have separate cubicles for boys and girls and the doors reach from floor to ceiling.

The only shared area are the wash basins.

Both the school and Swansea Council say that the new toilets have reduced incidents of bullying and loitering.