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The article reflects on the statement of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond on school budgets and the future of education colleges or local authority children's services in Great Britain. Topics include school funding crisis in the country; government policy of providing free sanitary products in schools and colleges; and offering of technical and vocational skills in the country.

The article offers insight to a survey conducted by Great Britain Association of School and College Leaders, according to which secondary schools in England and Wales have reported a rising tide of pupil poverty. It informs that survey which was completed by headteachers who represented 11 percent of state-funded secondary schools reveled issues of poverty, sanitary products, and food banks in schools.

The article focuses on problem of period poverty faced by girls and women in schools, colleges and universities in Great Britain. It mentions need for schools in Great Britain to provide sanitary products to girls and women. It also mentions National Union of Students (NUS) has passed an unprecedented motion for providing sanitary products to all female undergraduates in Great Britain.