Women juggle their lives every day – but routine tasks like shopping become even harder if you have a child with disabilities.

Samantha Buck, mum to two teenagers and Alfie, a severely disabled 10-year-old is a campaigner for Changing Places toilets. Unlike ordinary ‘disabled toilets’ these have far more space and equipment including a height adjustable adult-sized changing bench and a hoist, making them suitable for people with profound and multiple disabilities.

Without a Changing Places toilet, Samantha needs to change Alfie on the floor of a public toilet – after cleaning it first – and with the door open to maximise the available space. Then she relies on help from another family member to ease Alfie back into his wheelchair.

The Changing Places campaign which celebrates its 10th anniversary later this month, wants to see Changing Places toilets in city centres, shopping centres, hospitals, train stations, airports, motorway service stations, sports stadiums and other places to ensure all disabled people can attend hospital appointments, enjoy community life, travel and socialise with the same dignity as everyone else.

To read an account of a shopping trip with no accessible Changing Places toilet, and find out how to join the campaign read Samantha’s story here.

The campaign website (http://www.changing-places.org) has a national register of Changing Places toilets and location map.