National Key Scheme Guide (NKS) 2010
A guide to the 8,000+ NKS toilets and local services throughout the UK.
RADAR believes that everyone who experiences ill-health, injury or disability should have the same freedom and independence as all other citizens. We need changes in our society to achieve that - from better independent living and social care support to routes out of poverty - and RADAR is campaigning on all those issues, working in Parliament, with policy makers and with many other organisations to achieve change. We produce booklets, written by and for disabled people, on subjects from employment to managing money.One important part of freedom is having the confidence to go out, knowing that public toilets will be available that are accessible and meet your requirements. This guide, updated and with information on Changing Places toilets, provides all you need to know about the National Key Scheme and the accessible toilets around the UK.This is the ninth edition of the NKS Guide which lists approx. 8,000+toilets fitted with the NKS lock throughout the UK. This edition was published in March 2009.
NKS Key The National Key Scheme offers disabled people independent access to around 8,000+locked public toilets around the country.
While RADAR would like all providers of accessible toilets to keep their toilets unlocked if possible; the National Key Scheme (NKS) should be used if the provider concerned has to keep the toilets locked to stop misuse and damage.For orders received without the name and address of the disabled person and a declaration of his/her disability, we are obliged, by law, to charge VAT. Please see Notice 701/7 VAT Reliefs for Disabled People for a full explanation of the law on this issue.Organisations applying for keys must supply a zero rate certificate in order to qualify for VAT relief.