English: Diolch. Well, key to the delivery of the Equality Act 2010 is the availability of Changing Places toilets, which go beyond the provision of standard accessible toilets and are designed so that everyone, regardless of their access needs or impairments or reliance on the assistance of carers or specialist equipment, can use a toilet facility with dignity and hygienically. They're larger accessible toilets with equipment such as hoists, curtains, adult-sized changing benches and space for carers. Speaking here in 2019 on the Changing Places campaign, I stated that, although this was launched in 2006, I had just attended a Changing Places steering group meeting, focused on bringing Changing Places into the north-east Wales counties, hopefully starting with the town of Mold, where a campaign for a Changing Places toilet in the Daniel Owen Centre still continues today. It was chaired by Kim Edwards, who herself has Friedreich's ataxia. She said that the lack of current facilities means that disabled people don't go out. Providing a proper changing place provides all the space and equipment needed to avoid people being changed on an unhygienic floor, not changed at all, or even not going out into the community in the first place. Her words. It was then already 16 years since I'd first heard this raised in this place, and yet people like Kim are still having to fight these campaigns 19 years later. Questioning the First Minister here last month, I stated that 'TCC, Trefnu Cymunedol Cymru - Together Creating Communities, a group of dedicated community leaders from organisations across Flintshire, Wrexham and Denbighshire, have joined together to take action on the issue of Changing Places toilets. They say that, despite assurances regarding their provision over successive Welsh Governments, going back two decades, including by some who are still Ministers in this Welsh Government, there are still only around 50 Changing Places toilets in the whole of Wales.' When I then asked the First Minister 'when will the Welsh Government enable people in Wales who are not able to use standard accessible toilets to have their basic human needs and equality rights met, to enjoy a day out without the stress of worrying about accessing toilet facilities and thereby to increase their independence and overall health and well-being?' he replied that 'The responsibilities in this area lie with local authorities.' Welsh Government officials, he said, 'are tracking the money that has been made available to local authorities'. However, as the Welsh Government confirmed to me in a written answer, they do not have a specific fund for the delivery of Changing Places toilets. Further, TCC state that the Welsh Government guidance issued to local authorities in Wales is not being followed consistently, and that the result to date has been disappointing. In contrast, the UK Government has launched a Changing Places toilet programme, with a dedicated £30 million fund for local authorities in every part of England to help increase the number of Changing Places toilets there. Hence, our motion calls on the Welsh Government to provide a suitable funding mechanism and clear guidance to local authorities to ensure there is equitable provision of Changing Places toilets in every county in Wales. TCC state, if, for example, the Welsh Government could commit to at least match funding one Changing Places toilet per county, a national group purchase order could be secured at a rough cost of only £275,000 - £25,000 each; equivalent to just over £1 per disabled person in the country. The social model of disability says that people are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment, and a lack of basic facilities such as these are leaving people disabled, trapped, isolated and dependent on others. I've even heard of parents of disabled children being issued changing mats by their occupational therapists to be used on the floor in a public accessible toilet. Although Crohn's & Colitis UK rightly state that there needs to be better awareness of invisible disabilities, so that everyone can understand why someone with Crohn's or colitis needs to use the toilet urgently, standard accessible toilets do not meet the needs of all disabled people. Changing Places facilities also have an economic benefit: attracting disabled people and their families to use shops, tourist attractions and hospitality venues. Disabled families could contribute a huge amount to the economy, when the UK purple pound, the spending power of households with disabled people in them, is worth £274 billion. The lack of Changing Places is a social justice issue, a public health issue, a local government issue, a building regulations issue, and, above all, a disability rights issue. I therefore call on Members to support, and the Welsh Government to act, on our motion today.
Welsh: Diolch. Wel, yr hyn sy'n allweddol er mwyn cyflawni Deddf Cydraddoldeb 2010 yw argaeledd toiledau Changing Places, sy'n mynd y tu hwnt i ddarparu toiledau hygyrch safonol ac sydd wedi'u dylunio fel y gall pawb, ni waeth beth fo'u hanghenion mynediad neu namau neu ddibyniaeth ar gymorth gofalwyr neu offer arbenigol, ddefnyddio cyfleuster toiled gydag urddas ac mewn modd hylan. Maent yn doiledau hygyrch mwy o faint, gyda chyfarpar fel offer codi, llenni, meinciau newid i oedolion a lle i ofalwyr. Wrth siarad yma ynglŷn ag ymgyrch Changing Places yn 2019, dywedais, er i hyn gael ei lansio yn 2006, fy mod newydd fynychu cyfarfod grŵp llywio Changing Places, a oedd yn canolbwyntio ar ddod â Changing Places i siroedd gogledd-ddwyrain Cymru, gan ddechrau gyda thref yr Wyddgrug, gobeithio, lle mae ymgyrch dros doiled Changing Places yng Nghanolfan Daniel Owen yn parhau hyd heddiw. Câi ei chadeirio gan Kim Edwards, sydd â chyflwr atacsia Friedreich. Dywedodd fod y diffyg cyfleusterau presennol yn golygu nad yw pobl anabl yn mynd allan. Mae darparu toiled Changing Places addas yn darparu'r holl le a'r offer sydd eu hangen i atal pobl rhag gorfod cael eu newid ar lawr aflan, rhag peidio â chael eu newid o gwbl, neu hyd yn oed rhag peidio â mynd allan i'r gymuned yn y lle cyntaf. Ei geiriau hi. Roedd 16 mlynedd wedi bod bryd hynny ers imi glywed hyn yn cael ei godi gyntaf yn y lle hwn, ac eto, mae pobl fel Kim yn dal i orfod ymladd yr ymgyrchoedd hyn 19 mlynedd yn ddiweddarach. Wrth holi'r Prif Weinidog yma fis diwethaf, dywedais fod 'TCC, Trefnu Cymunedol Cymru - Together Creating Communities, grŵp o arweinwyr cymunedol arbennig o sefydliadau ar draws sir y Fflint, Wrecsam a sir Ddinbych, wedi ymuno i weithredu gyda'i gilydd ar fater toiledau Changing Places. Maen nhw'n dweud er gwaethaf sicrwydd ynghylch eu darpariaeth gan Lywodraethau olynol Cymru yn mynd yn ôl ddau ddegawd, gan gynnwys gan rai sy'n parhau i fod yn Weinidogion yn y Llywodraeth hon, mai dim ond tua 50 o doiledau Changing Places sydd ar gael yng Nghymru gyfan o hyd.' Pan ofynnais wedyn i'r Prif Weinidog 'pryd y bydd Llywodraeth Cymru'n galluogi pobl yng Nghymru nad ydyn nhw yn gallu defnyddio toiledau hygyrch safonol i gael eu hanghenion dynol sylfaenol wedi'u diwallu a'u hawliau cydraddoldeb wedi eu bodloni, i fwynhau diwrnod allan heb y straen o boeni am gael mynediad at gyfleusterau toiledau a thrwy hynny gynyddu eu hannibyniaeth a'u hiechyd a'u llesiant yn gyffredinol?' atebodd mai 'Awdurdodau lleol sy'n gyfrifol am y cyfrifoldebau yn y maes hwn.' Dywedodd fod swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru, 'yn olrhain yr arian sydd wedi ei ddarparu i awdurdodau lleol'. Fodd bynnag, fel y mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi'i gadarnhau i mi mewn ateb ysgrifenedig, nid oes ganddynt gronfa benodol ar gyfer darparu toiledau Changing Places. Yn ogystal, mae TCC yn datgan nad yw canllawiau Llywodraeth Cymru a gyhoeddwyd i awdurdodau lleol yng Nghymru yn cael eu dilyn yn gyson, a bod y canlyniad hyd yma wedi bod yn siomedig. Mewn cyferbyniad, mae Llywodraeth y DU wedi lansio rhaglen doiledau Changing Places, gyda chronfa bwrpasol o £30 miliwn ar gyfer awdurdodau lleol ym mhob rhan o Loegr i helpu i gynyddu nifer y toiledau Changing Places yno. Felly, mae ein cynnig yn galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i ddarparu mecanwaith ariannu addas a chanllawiau clir ar gyfer awdurdodau lleol i sicrhau bod darpariaeth deg o doiledau Changing Places ym mhob sir yng Nghymru. Mae TCC yn nodi, er enghraifft, pe gallai Llywodraeth Cymru ymrwymo i roi arian cyfatebol o leiaf ar gyfer un toiled Changing Places ym mhob sir, gellid sicrhau gorchymyn pryniant grŵp cenedlaethol am gost fras o £275,000 yn unig - £25,000 yr un; mae hynny'n cyfateb i ychydig dros £1 am bob unigolyn anabl yn y wlad. Mae'r model cymdeithasol o anabledd yn dweud bod pobl yn anabl oherwydd rhwystrau mewn cymdeithas, nid oherwydd eu nam, ac mae diffyg cyfleusterau sylfaenol fel y rhain yn golygu bod pobl yn anabl, yn gaeth, yn ynysig ac yn ddibynnol ar eraill. Rwyf wedi clywed am rieni plant anabl yn cael matiau newid gan eu therapyddion galwedigaethol i'w defnyddio ar y llawr mewn toiledau cyhoeddus hygyrch. Er bod elusen Crohn's & Colitis UK yn datgan, yn gwbl briodol, fod angen gwell ymwybyddiaeth o anableddau anweledig, fel y gall pawb ddeall pam fod angen i rywun â chlefyd Crohn neu colitis ddefnyddio'r toiled ar frys, nid yw toiledau hygyrch cyffredin yn diwallu anghenion pob unigolyn anabl. Mae budd economaidd hefyd i gyfleusterau Changing Places: denu pobl anabl a'u teuluoedd i ddefnyddio siopau, atyniadau i dwristiaid a lleoliadau lletygarwch. Gallai teuluoedd anabl gyfrannu'n sylweddol at yr economi, pan fo punt borffor y DU, pŵer gwario aelwydydd sy'n cynnwys pobl anabl, yn werth £274 biliwn. Mae diffyg Changing Places yn fater cyfiawnder cymdeithasol, mater iechyd y cyhoedd, mater llywodraeth leol, mater rheoliadau adeiladau, ac yn anad dim, yn fater hawliau anabledd. Galwaf felly ar yr Aelodau i gefnogi, a Llywodraeth Cymru i weithredu, ar ein cynnig heddiw.