Changing Places Awareness Day 2023

That the Parliament understands that Changing Places Awareness Day 2023 took place on 19 July; further understands that the day was established as a way to raise awareness of the lack of appropriate toilet facilities for people with limited mobility and severe physical disabilities, and also to mark the progress that has been made by campaigners in increasing that provision and improving the quality of changing places toilets; notes that the Scottish Government made what it sees as a significant manifesto pledge to invest £10 million in changing places toilets, which subsequently became part of the Programme for Government; considers that it has now been two years since this pledge was made, and understands that there has been no announcement regarding the distribution of the promised funding or any details on the application process; believes that, without a more widespread effort to increase the provision of changing places, there will still be people with disabilities who are forced to change in inappropriate toilets and whose ability to travel far across the country will be severely limited; celebrates the efforts of changing places campaigners, such as Jill Clark, who, it believes, has worked incredibly hard to ensure that the provision of changing places toilets in Glasgow has increased in places such as shopping centres and train stations, and considers that access to a toilet suitable to a person's own needs should be considered a very basic yet vital human right.