Petition updateMAKE IT LAW for county councils to put Changing Places Toilets in all town centres with a bench and hoist for Severely disabled people - No more changing on public toilet floorIt states in the Equality Act 2010 section 20 that “There IS A DUTY to make change”

samantha buckHorsham, ENG, United Kingdom

Oct 21, 2017
My son Alfie was born at full term weighing 8.5lbs
He but was starved of oxygen at birth
Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy Grade 3 (most severe)
"Brain injury – lack of oxygen to the brain, or #asphyxia. Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, or HIE, is the brain injury caused by oxygen deprivation to the brain, also commonly known as intrapartum asphyxia"
Alfie now has quadriplegic cerebral palsy.
Motor Function Grade 5 (most severe) he is 11 years old and as tall as me (his mum)
He is a full time wheelchair user and lives with a lot of pain and muscle spasm.
He has just turned Eleven this year and we have found that the older he gets when we go out for the day on a family trip, hospital Appointment or travelling the M roads, we have nowhere to change his Continence Pad except on Public Toilet floors.
IT DOES STATE IN THE EQUALITY ACT 2010 section 20 that there "IS A DUTY"
"where a provision, criterion or practice of A's puts a disabled person at a substantial disadvantage in relation to a relevant matter in comparison with persons who are not disabled, to take such steps as it is reasonable to AVOID THE DISADVANTAGE"
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/20
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