P is for People Campaign for Public Toilets in Wales

Campaigners for the P is for People Campaign have gathered at the Assembly in Wales to urge the Welsh government to keep public toilets open.

The campaign is being run by the Welsh Senate of Older People, composed of 57 organisations representing older people. Members of the senate claimed that public toilets are a lifeline for older people.

One of the campaigners Phyllis Preece said: "Public toilets are a lifeline, especially for older people, pregnant women and parents with young children, yet they seem to be disappearing at a rate of knots from our communities."

Mrs Preece added: "The P is for People campaign has bought people from around the country together at the Welsh assembly to demonstrate the strength of feeling that there is about saving our public toilets.

"People can become prisoners in their own homes because they are afraid to go outside because there are no public toilets where they live."

The Senate said there was a clear need for the Welsh government to make the provision of public toilets a public duty. However, a Welsh government spokesman said that this was the domain of local authorities but that the government had no plans to make it a statutory duty.

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