Disabled Persons Assembly kaituitui-community networker Chris Ford. Photo: Brenda Harwood
Changing Places is based on a UK project to provide fully accessible public bathrooms ‘‘where people with multiple or complex disabilities can get changed in a safe, clean environment’’.
Disabled Persons Assembly kaituitui-community networker Chris Ford told yesterday’s meeting disabled people should have access to the bathroom, which contains adult-sized changing tables and hoists. He said the council could put it forward as a ‘‘shovel-ready project’’.
Mr Ford said disabled people also needed to be included as active partners in the council’s social housing review to be undertaken over the next year.
