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Toilet Manifesto for London

Author/s:: Positive Ageing in London (PAiL), Kilburn Older Voices Exchange (KOVE)
Summary:: Adequate public toilet provision is an essential feature of an age-friendly city. The manifesto, inspired by innovative London-based research, seeks that the Greater London Authority makes this need explicit, and supports the manifesto’s five obligations.
File:: Toilet-Manifesto-web-3.pdf 88.24 KB
Publication date:: 2020
Keywods:: Built Environment Campaign Public Toilets
Type:: Organisation or Campaign

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Publicly Accessible Toilets after COVID-19

Author/s:: Imran Nazerali, Gail Ramster, Jo-Anne Bichard
Summary:: In this update to Publicly Accessible Toilets: An Inclusive Design Guide, we show how future toilets can be designed to be more hygienic, and also more accessible and inclusive, as a critical part of public health infrastructure.
Web link:: Go to resource
Publication date:: 2021
Keywods:: Covid-19 Design Inclusion Public Toilets
Type:: Design Guide

Providing safer toilets for public use: coronavirus

Author/s:: Welsh Government
Summary:: Guidance for the safe management of toilets used by the public during the coronavirus pandemic. It is intended to help the owners and operators of toilets for public use to plan for the safer management of toilets as the restrictions in Wales are lifted and to plan for the re-opening of toilets where they have been closed.
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Publication date:: 2020
Keywods:: Covid-19 Public Health Public Toilets
Type:: Standards and Guidance

Improving Public Access to Better Quality Toilets: A Strategic Guide

Author/s:: Department for Communities and Local Government
Summary:: This strategic guide reviews the evidence and sets out ways in which local authorities and their partners can secure improvements to public toilets. By arguing the case for public toilets, removing barriers to provision, and sharing good approaches and practice, it aims to encourage local authorities and the business community to review the importance of provision.DCLG
Web link:: Go to resource
Publication date:: 2008
Keywods:: Design Public Toilets
Type:: Standards and Guidance

Public Toilets in London: update report

Author/s:: London Assembly
Summary:: In this report the Health and Public Services Committee of the London Assembly reviews whether the provision of public toilets in London has improved since the previous report by the Committee on this topic in 2006, and identifies what more the Mayor could do to improve provision.
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Publication date:: 2011
Keywods:: Public Toilets
Type:: Report

Twelfth Report: The Provision of Public Toilets

Author/s:: Communities and Local Government Select Committee
Summary:: This report seeks to consider the evidence and to produce simple and practical recommendations to improve this important social amenity. Our over-riding recommendation is that the Government imposes a duty on local authorities to develop a public toilet strategy, which should involve consultation with the local community, for their own area.
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Publication date:: 2008
Keywods:: Public Toilets
Type:: Report

Changing Places: The Practical Guide

Author/s:: Changing Places Consortium
Summary:: This guide aims to provide readers with the practical guidance on the design and management of a Changing Places toilet, as well as an understanding of why they are needed and who is likely to benefit from them.
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Keywods:: Changing Places Design Disability
Type:: Design Guide

Troubling school toilets: resisting discourses of ‘development’ through a critical disability studies and critical psychology lens

Author/s:: Jen Slater, Charlotte Jones, Lisa Procter
Summary:: This paper, in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, interrogates how school toilets and ‘school readiness’ are used to assess children against developmental milestones. Such developmental norms both inform school toilet design and practice, and perpetuate normative discourses of childhood as middle-class, white, ‘able’, heteronormative, cissexist and inferior to adulthood.
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Publication date:: 2019
Keywods:: Gender Inclusion
Type:: Academic Paper

The toilet debate: Stalling trans possibilities and defending ‘women’s protected spaces’

Author/s:: Charlotte Jones, Jen Slater
Summary:: As one of the few explicitly gender-separated spaces, the toilet has become a prominent site of conflict and a focal point for ‘gender-critical’ feminism. In this article for The Sociological Review, we draw upon an AHRC-funded project, Around the Toilet, to reflect upon and critique trans-exclusionary and trans-hostile narratives of toilet spaces.
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Publication date:: 2020
Keywods:: Gender Inclusion
Type:: Academic Paper