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[guido]

Hi - just want to draw the Brits to a good organisation called Changing Places

In a nutshell, they are trying to get better provision for spaz bogs around the place - with a minimum set of standards, etc...

They have a EDM on the table already. Take 2 minutes to have a quick look. If you go to the right where it says Standard Order, you can change it to Alphabetical order, and see if your MP has signed up to it.

If s/he hasn't it'll take you 3 minutes to look them up and then copy and paste this letter (obviously fill in the gaps!!). If you add a personal aspect it may well work better to get him to take action.

"I would like to draw your attention to EDM 1713 on the Provision of Changing Places Toilets.

EDM 1713 calls on the Government to encourage the building of Changing Places toilets in venues such as hospitals, shopping centres and large train stations, and to amend Part M of the Building Regulations to ensure that all newly built major public buildings provide a Changing Places toilet. Currently only 103 such toilets are available around the UK despite up to 230,252 people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, cerebral palsy, spina bifida or multiple sclerosis requiring them.

I would like to see many more such toilets around the UK to allow people with the above disabilities and their carers to enjoy the freedoms we all take for granted. I hope that you agree and will support the changes spelled out in EDM 1713."

and send to him/her at:

House of Commons
London
SW1A 1AA

This is an easy victory as the hard work's been done and already so many signatories.

Guido

[Apparelyzed]

spaz bogs ?

That'll get the PC brigade typing!

Simon

[guido]

Apparelyzed, on Nov 20 2009, 08:36 AM, said:

spaz bogs ?

That'll get the PC brigade typing!

Simon

Uh...? Did I just think that or say it out loud??
I meant.... "disabled toilets"

[Tetracyclone]

you guys are hilarious.

Disabled toilets? Whatever happened to the poor things? Does the measure require a government worker to go round and smash up perfectly good AB toilets? That's just an ignorant question from across the Pond. Or giant bog. Whatever.

Edited by Pwuff, 20 November 2009 - 06:52 PM.

[qbounce]

Do ALL these toilet facilities come with hoists?

Wouldn't that be a little dangerous, and also ALOT messy? Guess I'm just thinking out loud also.

SPAZ BOG . . . . that's a new one.

[Avocado Baby]

What do you guys across the pond call them?

I've sent the letter to my MP.

[guido]

qbounce, on Nov 20 2009, 06:57 PM, said:

Do ALL these toilet facilities come with hoists?

Wouldn't that be a little dangerous, and also ALOT messy? Guess I'm just thinking out loud also.

SPAZ BOG . . . . that's a new one.

Hi Q - the idea behind this movement is to ensure that an increasing supply of disabled toilets are 1) actually large enough to be accessible by even the largest electric wheelchairs and a carer, and 2) have facilities that mean that parents and carers don't need to change their charge on skanky toilet floors. I guess it doesn't really apply to SCI people a huge amount (maybe quads, I don't know?) and I believe that hoists are on that list but their website, makes their min standards clear. I say BRAVO to making a country more accessible to all. It's easy to do in New Build so WHY NOT?

(Or are you having a joke, kind of like the phantom shi**er we had at school who used to hold on to the cubicle tops and drop one from there, so that invariably it would miss the bowl and flatten itself against the seat or the floor, to the huge amusement of all of us - probably because we never had to clear it up!!!)

Avocado Baby, on Nov 22 2009, 07:17 PM, said:

What do you guys across the pond call them?

I've sent the letter to my MP.

Hi Avocado Baby - nice one, thanks. I've yet to hear back from mine.

[dangerousdave]

Disabled Toilets Theme Public not Private Holiday Park
Here in th UK (and Euro)we have a radar key locked specific rooms with whelchair space next to the pan occupied by bins. Mini sinks that are perfect for making a mess so that when you leave your all wet.
Air dryers that are positioned 1 meter away from your hands. Help pull cords dangle from the ceiling while your prostrate on the ground. Some shops have them doubling up as storage rooms.
Some helpful planers have them sited up a step or 2. Or at the tp of a slope with a pull not push door.... Help. Very, very rarely are they sited within normal toilet blocks. So once in Switzerland I wheeled round and round a toilet block looking for the disabled designated area, then sod it I gotta go .. squeezed through the door and there it was, at the end of the room. You guys know of the foot / squat pan types. Well I found one in a disabled loo in France, just couldn't figure out how to use it. I have travlled the length and breath of Belgium without finding a loo I could use .. so I filled a few waste buckets.
So when you Yanks come on over, remember to visit a local council office to purchase a RADAR KEY.
For you Brits going to Yankee land, the disabled toilets are mostly in the normal toilets, they are not locked, and more often then not if there is a single pan room .. it fits all .. but you'll have to water your tubes befor you enter. If you go to a stadium you will be spoilt for choice. No wandering up and down and round and round.
Amazingly .. not all loos here in the UK have support rails, some are so close to the pan, you can't get on the pan. Then of corse there are those that fall on to you. In all my travels I have only come accross one loo where a triangle dangled from the ceiling - just the one. DO NOT HAVE ACCIDENTS. I have only come accross 2 toilets that also had a shower facility .... they were in Spain.