RADAR Toilets/keys

matphil

I have just been checking this out as I wanted to buy one and found this on my local council web site. -

Who can get a Radar Key?

The key is available to any disabled person who is in receipt of the higher level of Disability Allowance (Mobility Component) or has a disabled parking blue badge.

Where can I get one?

(My council) currently provides RADAR keys free of charge at its One 4 All Centres.

Simply go to the One 4 All Centre with proof of eligibility (confirmation of higher level of disability living allowance – mobility component or your blue badge) and ask to be issued with a RADAR key. Once you have provided the necessary documents you will be issued with a key free of charge and a record will be kept that you have received one.

The Council ask for this proof to comply with the guidelines issued by RADAR and to ensure that only disabled people are issued with keys.

luminated

matphil good tip about checking with my council. I will look into that :T

KxMx

Most councils will issue them free but please if you can spare £2.50 why not support RADAR?

dogcat_2

I live in Exeter....I have looked at their website...as far as I can see the Radar key is not free from them. I will be buying one from Radar.

Brassedoff

Horseunderwater wrote: »

For info. A radar key long or short will fit all radar locked disabled loos regardless of whether they are council ones or shops or anywhere there is one. The system was designed to stop normal people using and abusing them and in some cases deliberately vandalising them.

Now you've really hit the nail on the head there. I was in a club in Birmingham (The Jam House), where the disabled toilet was being used by lots of (very, very able ) bodied females who could not be bothered going upstairs. Yet when I wheeled myself to the door I received a mouthful from several for queue jumping. The bouncer was standing opposite and instead of making them walk the 8 steps to the dance floor where the ladies toilet was!

I am fed up, just like disabled parking spaces, toilets being used for a whole host of reasons.

No consideration for another's needs.

KxMx

You'd probably class me as an able-bodied female because I look like one but that's not the case.

I have severe bowel issues which can and do lead to incontinence issues and sometimes I need to use the disabled toilet if I am having a bad day with it (various issues from needing room/privacy to change or needing to go so urgently to take even those few extra steps to the Ladies were I may have to then queue and wait longer would mean an accident). Any day there isn't a problem however I use the normal ladies.

If you don't mind me saying so your other posts seem to indicate you have a real problem with anyone not in a wheelchair being considered disabled. I suggest you read the wording of the Disability Discrimination act to see the legal definition.

I am very sorry that you got abuse when you were out but you are doing the exact same thing to the others you have decided were all fit, healthy and had no possible reason to use the disabled loo.

I would suggest you report the bouncer's actions to the club management.

Two4Tuesday

Brassedoff wrote: »

No consideration for another's needs.

That's you in a nutshell. You have claimed that incontinence is a condition but not a disability on another thread. That's completely wrong and while it may not in itself be completely relevant to blue badges, it certainly is relevant to accessible toilets.

How dare you assume that anyone not in a wheelchair is not disabled enough to need an accessible toilet? Actually I guess you are as ignorant as most able bodied people who tut-tut at people with hidden disabilities who need to use accessible toilets.

I too suffer from complete bowel incontinence and accessible toilets are the only places I can use to change nappies when out and about while retaining some sense of dignity. Being a male, the regular toilets have no facility for disposal of used incontinence pads, even if I could contort myself enough in the small cubicles to actually clean up and change.

You should be ashamed of yourself. I am ashamed of you. I doubt that you are ashamed though. You're more brass necked than brassed off.

Alias_Omega

This thread has way way way drifted off topic.

The original post was asking about the purchase of Radar Keys. This has now been answered.

AO

luminated

As the OP I am really grateful to all those who have posted and shared their experience on such a delicate matter :beer:

As a man I have found accidental leaking (peeing only) very embarrassing but have now plucked up enough courage to talk to my surgery about it and am waiting for a referral to an incontinence nursing team. I am not sure what this will entail but looking forward to any help I get. I say leaking/pee only but when out I am wheelchair bound so I find I need to plan every trip to include toilet locations as I can't leg it if I get caught short for a one or a two

In my case people I know are always saying how well I look but they only see me out on the better days & not the many days where I am house, or even bed, bound.

Thanks again :T

Brassedoff

Hi OP,

Can I suggest if you are in that position, you go to the docs and ask for further tests. You need referring to a urologist. They have a series of tests they need to put you through.

I went through what you described over a year ago and you definitely need to have some urodynamic tests done to check why it's (the sphincter) is doing it. There are other tests such as bladder inflation, nerve conduction right through to a possible cystoscopy.

I cannot stress the importance. Us wheelies especially have some issues they need to sort that the neurosurgery team do not look for or pick up.

PM me if you want to know more, but please get the metaphoric foot put down demanding the referral as you are in the early stages of your incontinence issues.