{"id":275,"date":"2014-01-24T16:14:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T16:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-54-217-221-176.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.global.prod.fastly.net\/?page_id=275"},"modified":"2014-04-09T15:30:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:30:13","slug":"campaign-background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/?page_id=275","title":{"rendered":"Campaign background"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>&#8216;Where Can I Go&#8217;: Campaign Background<\/h3>\n<p>There are insufficient numbers of clean hygienic and safe publicly available toilets in many towns and cities throughout the UK to meet the needs of residents and visitors<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where Can I Go? &#8211; I\u2019m old and I need to know that there will be a toilet available for me to go when I\u2019m away from home<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many of the existing toilets do not provide adequate inclusive facilities to meet the needs of all types of users<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where Can I Go? &#8211; I have special needs and I need accessible facilities available to me that enable me to go when and where I need to on my journeys<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Department of Communities and Local Government Committee has done its best to support BTA and other organisations in raising awareness of the issues and recommending Government action<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where Can I Go? &#8211; I\u2019m a young child or baby and I need family friendly toilet facilities so that I can be changed while I am away from home by a male or female parent or carer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The DCLG Report is a valuable document and can be used as evidence as part of a new campaign<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where Can I Go? &#8211; I\u2019m a woman and I need adequate provision of toilet facilities so that I can go when I need to<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The existing Government will not change it\u2019s mind about placing an obligation on Local Authorities to provide public toilets (or many other sensible recommendations included in the report, e.g. signage and data capture)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where Can I Go? &#8211; I\u2019m a visitor and I need to know where the toilets are and what facilities are available to me when I need to go<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The new BTA Campaign needs to change from a \u2018top down\u2019 approach -directed primarily at Central Government, to a \u2018bottom up\u2019 approach\u2019 \u2013 directed at local government \u2013 the actual source, and we believe, the authority responsible for provision<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where Can I Go? &#8211; \u2018I have anxieties about using a toilet and I need a clean and hygienic toilet where I can go and feel safe\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A \u2018call to action\u2019 with the support of other associations and organisations that will add more than the sum of the constituent parts to the force of a new campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Where Can I Go&#8217;: Campaign Background There are insufficient numbers of clean hygienic and safe publicly available toilets in many towns and cities throughout the UK to meet the needs of residents and visitors Where Can I Go? &#8211; I\u2019m old and I need to know that there will be a toilet available for me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":161,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions\/638"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.btaloos.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}