Bringing Better Public Toilets To Everyone

Changing Places public toilets offer facilities for people who need help when using the toilet. Larger rooms with more equipment than in a standard accessible toilet, such as a hoist and a height-adjustable changing bench, allows people with carers to move more freely in society.

Among the users of Changing Places toilets are people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and many other disabled people with carers. Without access to a Changing Places, carers often have to resort to changing their family members on the floor in public toilets, giving them little or no privacy. For this reason, many avoid leaving their house for more than a few hours.

The provision of Changing Places toilets is an important matter of Accessibility and Social Equality.

Danfo UK is at the forefront of promoting Changing Places toilets and we have already incorporated Changing Places facilities at some of our public toilets.

The Future for Changing Places Public Toilets

British Standard 8300:2009, Design of buildings and their approaches to meet the needs of disabled people, is a code of practice on adapting the built environment to make it more generally accessible. Published in February 2009, it recommends the installation of Changing Places toilets in larger public buildings.

Beverley Dawkins, chair of the Changing Places Consortium, states:

” We are delighted that the needs of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities are finally being taken seriously “.

More information about Changing Places here.