Market Place Shopping Centre has installed a new toilet which will make a huge difference to many people, who would otherwise struggle to go out. Called a Changing Places facility, the room contains special equipment for those with additional needs. More than a quarter of a million people across the UK require the need to use accessible toilet facilities such as Changing Places Toilets .
Changing Places Toilets offer severely disabled people an abundance of equipment that standard toilets fail to have on offer. This equipment includes but is not limited to hoist, curtain, adult-sized changing bench and plenty of space for carers. Standard accessible toilets, better known as disabled toilets, do not offer these facilities, or are not large enough to accommodate more than one person.
Without Changing Places Facilities , the user with disabilities is put at an extreme risk, and their families are forced to risk their own health and safety by changing their loved one on a toilet floor. Levelling Up Minister Jacob Young said: “I am delighted to see our funding has helped secure new Changing Places toilets in Bolton , delivering modern and accessible facilities in areas where they are needed most. “As part of our mission to level up communities across the country, we are supporting councils to make a real difference to people’s lives.
Providing these important public facilities is the latest example in how we’re achieving that.” The Changing Places Toilet is officially op.
