ds1 goes to a disabled swimming club which has just moved venue. A lot of the people who go are very vulnerable and have quite complex needs. Many have carers of the opposite sex. For example a 60 year old may act as a carer to her brother with SLD's of a similar age and may need to help him get changed.
Last week there was a shutter between the bit the club was using for changing (which led straight into the pool we use - separate from the other pools). The shutter could be opened by anyone but had a sign on it asking that it was closed behind anyone using it. So anyone could access the club's changing area they just needed to close the shutter behind them.
A member of the public complained
so now there's no shutter. This means the club members have lost some privacy and from my point of view it's harder to herd severely autistic into the pool rather than into the rest of the (huge) changing rooms.
Why can't people just look outside their own little world for two seconds and realise that other people have more difficulty accessing pools etc than them?