Useful links regarding accessible toilets

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Our resources

• Download a pdf version of our My Experience form or
• copy and paste the text from this page (text version of the My Experience form) into an e-mail which you can send to the company.

This form enables you to tell businesses that an accessible toilet has not met your needs. It provides them with an opportunity to improve their toilet provision and tell you how they will improve things.

Books – free

• Guide to Accessible Toilet Standards and Equality Act Requirements

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Download pdf version Guide to Accessible Toilet Standards and Equality Act requirements

 

 

• What makes a toilet accessible. An introduction to the needs of disabled people and assistants/carers. 

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Download pdf version What makes a toilet accessible

 

• Going Beyond the Minimum Requirements. Our guide to why toilets may need to go beyond existing standards to provide equality of access. 

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Download pdf version Going beyond the standards_

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Pinterest Boards (you can follow products/pictures to original websites)

• Biobidet
• Changing Places – toilets with hoists, extra space and changing table/hygiene facilities.
• Closomat
• Geberit
• Toilet Equipment and personal hygiene

Maps

• Map of changing places toilets
• Other maps and rating Apps for all types of accessible toilets

Grants

Apply for Changing Places grant

Motorway services (About this grant) ends July

NHS hospitals (Apply here)

Consultations

• Mandatory provision of Changing Places through changes to Document M of building regulations in England

Regulations

• Document M (2015) – with 2016 updates – free – standards and guidelines for accessible toilets in public buildings.

• BS 8300: 2018 Design of buildings and their approaches to meet the needs of disabled people. Code of Practice. For purchase  

This British Standard provides guidance in the design of new buildings to make them more accessible including toilet provision. Its recommendations can also be applied to existing buildings and used as a basis for their improvement.

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