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West End Extra - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 26 June 2009

Sign the Mencap’s petition for ‘Changing Places’

• AS a supporter of the Changing Places campaign, I think it is a disgrace there are not enough public toilets to meet the needs of local people with severe disabilities and their carers.
While we have one in the area this is far from enough.
People with profound and multiple learning disabilities need Changing Places toilets – with a hoist, changing bench and plenty of space.
Without them carers are often forced to change their disabled loved-ones on dirty toilet floors.
I urge the councils to install more Changing Places toilets.
People with profound and multiple learning disabilities should have the same opportunities as everyone else.
And carers have enough to contend with – let’s not make their lives harder by denying them the right to basic public facilities.
I encourage readers to take action and sign the online petition, which also calls on the government to change building regulations to make Changing Places toilets compulsory in big public places.
Sign up to it at www.mencap.org.uk
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Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, West End Extra, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@westendextra.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Wednesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld.
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