Martin Jackaman, Nottingham City Council’s contender for Council Worker Of The Year, is on Radio Nottingham next week.

BBC presenter Sarah Julian backed the Vote for Martin campaign when she visited the award-winning Changing Place public toilet in Greyhound Street, off Smithy Row, to see the huge difference the facility makes to the lives of profoundly disabled people and their carers. The interview will be broadcast in The Breakfast Show on Sunday, June 19.

The toilets provide height-adjustable, adult-sized changing bench, a hoist, a peninsular toilet and plenty of space.

Nottingham is one of very few cities and towns in the country to provide changing place toilets and the first in the Midlands. Martin, of the City Council’s Adult Services, Housing and Health, masterminded the project and is advising other councils and organisations like interested in installing them. The facilities have been promoted in Parliament, Lord Seb Coe wants them included in plans for the 2012 London Olympics and London Mayor Ken Livingstone wants to see them in the Capital.

To vote for Martin Jackaman as Council Worker of the Year

Vote on line at www.thelocalgovernmentchannel.com

Text LGA 1 Martin to 88600 (texts cost 25p each);

Fill in a postal voting form available from Infopoint at The Guildhall,   Burton Street, Nottingham NG1 4BT