Modular Changing Places Toilets

Changing Places toilets, or CPTs, are specially adapted accessible toilets for disabled people with complex or multiple needs. For many disabled people, a standard peninsular toilet and grab rail are enough to ensure they can use the toilet with dignity. However, for over 250,000 people in the UK, standard accessible facilities simply don’t provide the equipment they need.

Without CPTs, many disabled people are forced to make difficult choices when they’re out and about: either make only short trips, sit in a soiled continence pad or risk being changed in an unhygienic or unsafe place, such as on a public toilet floor.

Changing Places toilets are designed to meet the needs of those who require them as comprehensively as possible. Governed by the BS8300 standard, CPTs by law must have:

• All the features of a standard accessible toilet (peninsular toilet, grab rails, clothing hooks etc.)
• A full-room hoist system, for safe transfer of wheelchair users
• An adult-size changing bed and corresponding wide paper roll
• A height-adjustable sink
• A privacy screen

As standard, RISE CPTs also come equipped with a combination wetroom/shower, giving extra peace of mind and ensuring any uncomfortable messes can be dealt with quickly.

The accessible tourism industry in the UK is worth around £15.3billion a year, with CPT users and their travelling parties making up a not insignificant percentage of that massive figure. If your club is yet to consider the value that catering to the needs of disabled people can deliver, now’s definitely the time to start.

It’s also just the right thing to do!