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Sep 2022
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Ep 424: Tackling period poverty

The Observer
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In August, Jason Grant became the Period Dignity Officer for Tayside. After an outcry over the job being given to a man he resigned and the role was abolished. But that doesn’t mean the issue has gone away.


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