Hygiene Poverty: Education
Behind school gates, it’s wild. Chaotic. Every minute counts. This can make cleaning a tough job, even for the most experienced cleaner. We understand your need to uphold hygiene standards whilst saving time, money and backache. Lugging heavy buckets of water and manually mopping is traditional, but completely unhygienic, time consuming and physically taxing. There are better, more efficient options to tackle hygiene poverty now.
Hygiene Poverty
Following a 2023 poll, 72% of UK school staff believe that hygiene poverty has increased in their school over the past year. Is this due to budget cuts? Yes. 70% of schools in England have less funding in real terms than in 2010. So, many school cleaning contracts have been cut and the hygiene maintenance is shared among staff. But having less capital doesn’t have to result in poor hygiene standards, we just need to get creative and think of ways to clean as efficiently as possible. And with over 19% of UK students persistently absent from school (absent for more than 10% of lessons), which subsequently has a snowball effect on health and well-being, achieved grades, and students’ perception of acceptable cleanliness. We need to start paying attention to the fact that hygiene poverty has impact, and put precautions in place to turn it around.
Mental Well-being
Cleanliness doesn’t just affect out physical health, the mental element is also significant. In a recent survey 83% of teachers reported a noteworthy improvement in pupil behavior when they are working in a clean and tidy space. Similarly, Young Minds have distinguished a direct connection between children’s mental health and academic achievement. This is why it’s crucial that student environments are considered and maintained to a healthy standard. We want nothing more than for our students to succeed. After all, they’re our future.
Solutions
Signing a cleaning contractor might not be a plausible option, but neither is appointing unprofessional cleaning staff with the responsibility of keeping your whole facility clean and tidy, whilst still working their full-time jobs. So, what do we do? If you’re aiming to save time, money and resource when cleaning, then investing in a cleaning machine is going to be your best option. In little time, they pay for themselves. Just to put it into perspective for you: Manually mopping a 100m2 area takes 55 minutes, compared to the imop which takes just 5 minutes, which enables your existing staff to wiz round extremely efficiently. 10 times more efficiently! From 36+ years of experience, we’ve successfully collaborated with change-making schools across the UK to supply affordable cleaning machines to meet a huge variety of requirements and budgets.
Wrapped Up
When educating we want to raise the bar, but why not create a new standard? Imagine proactively making positive and meaningful change in the education sector. Setting the example. The stats don’t lie, they’re proof that we need to start paving the way so that our students can have a safer and more hygienic future. Just let us know when you’re ready.