Key For Disabled Toilets Anywhere!!

PolishBigSpender

daska wrote: »

Even RADAR don't ask for proof.

Really? Bit absurd to have such a system if it's not policed in any way.

black_paw

got one for local Tourist Information Centre. £2.50 no proof asked gave money and got key ! opens all toilets everywhere

mardatha

The motability website has them at £4.99

daska

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Really? Bit absurd to have such a system if it's not policed in any way.

Really? Considering how much it would cost to police it? Paying an attendant 24 hours a day, every day, for every loo in the system?

Biggles

daska wrote: »

Really? Considering how much it would cost to police it? Paying an attendant 24 hours a day, every day, for every loo in the system?

I believe PBS meant Radar giving/selling the keys to anyone without any evidence they were disabled.

daska

Biggles wrote: »

I believe PBS meant Radar giving/selling the keys to anyone without any evidence they were disabled.

Same deal. The cost of checking everyone's applications would require more bodies and therefore cost more which would make it less accessible. And what are you going to do about people buying them and passing them on to others: demand police incident numbers before you replace them? What about those of us who keep one in our handbag and one in the glove box: restrict it to a single key per person.

Purchases made VAT free on the basis of disability can be investigated - but again, for the amount they would recoup there would be little point in doing this.

If the system were shut down because PBS thought it were pointless having this system and not policing it then PBS would be unaffected by this... we who are disabled and live in the UK would then either have to pay through the nose or give up a wonderful system that helps to preserve our dignity and eases the difficulties of getting out and about.

poppy_f1

my mum got one thru our council (west lothian) think she paid a fiver for it

ThinkingOfLinking

Thanks for this; I lost my old one which was actually given to me when I was in physiotherapy for the injury which originally disabled me. It amazes me some places don't operate a RADAR scheme; some arenas like Echo Arena and Philharmonic Hall, both in Liverpool don't, but Wembley Stadium does.

Biggles

daska wrote: »

Same deal.

Hardly: one guy in the office as compared to several thousand people working '24 hours a day'?

But anyway, I wasn't agreeing with his suggestion, just pointing out that it wasn't quite as unfeasible as you were suggesting. ;-)

parapusher

My council (south gloucestershire) gives them out free - we haven't had to show proof of disablility or proof that we lived in the council concerned! I have seen them on ebay. I went to check they are still there, before posting this and noticed someone selling small keys, the normal ones are quite about 4 inches long (not sure exactly, it's in the car), so are quite large to go on a bunch of keys.