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P-05-871 Make baby and toddler changing available in both male/female toilets

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Meeting: 23/06/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 5)

5 P-05-871 Make baby and toddler changing available in both male/female toilets

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Minutes:

The Committee considered further correspondence and agreed to close the petition following confirmation that proposals to strengthen provision to expect baby changing facilities in both male and female toilets will be included in the Welsh Government’s forthcoming consultation on changing places toilet facilities, and congratulate the petitioner on their campaign.


Meeting: 10/03/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-871 Make baby and toddler changing available in both male/female toilets

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Minutes:

The Committee considered further correspondence and agreed to await further information from the Minister for Housing and Local Government about the possible inclusion of proposals to strengthen the provision to expect baby-changing facilities in both male and female toilets within a forthcoming consultation on changes to Building Regulations, before considering further action on the petition.


Meeting: 21/01/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-871 Make baby and toddler changing available in both male/female toilets

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Minutes:

The Committee agreed to await a response to recent correspondence it has written in relation to increasing the provision of changing places toilets, before considering further how planning policies can strive to improve the availability of a range of toilet facilities.

 

The Committee also agreed to write to the Assembly Commission in relation to a suggestion that there is gendered signage in the Senedd.


Meeting: 15/10/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-871 Make baby and toddler changing available in both male/female toilets

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The Committee considered further correspondence and agreed to write back to the Deputy Minister and Chief Whip to ask how the government intends to ensure that local authorities are complying with the statutory guidance on provision of baby changing facilities if it does not intend to scrutinise local toilet strategies.


Meeting: 02/04/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-871 Make baby and toddler changing available in both male/female toilets

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Minutes:

The Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to write back to the Deputy Minister and Chief Whip to:

·         share the petitioner’s comments, and seek clarification about the reference made within design standards to baby changing provisions not being provided in ‘unisex’ toilets;

·         ask what analysis the Welsh Government intends to do of the local toilet strategies produced by local authorities;

·         ask whether the Welsh Government has held any discussions with the private sector, or representative bodies, over the provision of changing facilities in premises open to the public; and 

·         ask for information about relevant actions carried out following the Health and Social Care Committee’s 2012 inquiry Public health implications of inadequate public toilet facilities.