Why iHUS Build
You can find your nearest registered Changing Places toilet in the UK by clicking on the image above:
Why Changing Places are important
There are thousands of people in the UK without access to the necessary disabled toilet facilities and are restricted in their use of public spaces; iHUS Changing Places offer a cost and time effective modular solution. The iHUS changing place facilities are both spacious and contain specialist equipment to the required BS 8300 specification.
It is a fact that disabled people need special Changing Places. Changing Places toilets are the next generation public disabled toilets with extra features and more space to meet special needs. iHUS Changing Places provide the user and their carer(s) with enough space and the right equipment, including a height adjustable changing bench and tracked hoisting.
People with profound and multiple learning disabilities, as well as other serious impairments often need specific facilities to allow them to use the toilets comfortably. Changing Places toilets provide this necessary space, functionality and comfort.
Standard accessible toilets (or “disabled toilets”) do not provide changing benches or hoists and most are too small to accommodate more than one person. Without Changing Places toilets, the person with disabilities is put at risk, and families are forced to risk their own health and safety by changing their loved one on a toilet floor.
This is dangerous, unhygenic and undignified.
Providing these toilets in public places would make a dramatic difference to the lives of thousands of people.
It is now accepted and expected that everyone has a right to live in the community, to move around within it and access all its facilities. Government policy promotes the idea of “community participation” and “active citizenship,” but for some people with disabilities the lack of a fully accessible toilet is denying them this right. iHUS Changing places want to make this a thing of the past.
Who are Changing Places for?
Research has found that over a quarter of a million severely disabled people, including those with profound and multiple learning disabilities, do not have access to public toilet facilities that meet their needs. In the UK the number of people who would benefit from a Changing Places toilet would include approximately:
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