A Dad from Kent is campaigning for big cafes and restaurant chains to supply baby changing facilities in male toilets.

This is after cafe and restaurant giants said he was unable to change his son’s nappy because there wasn’t facilities for him to do so as the baby changing facilities were located in the female toilets.

This meant he we was forced to change his baby’s nappy on the floor or in the car.

After sharing his discovery on YouTube, the founder of DadsNet found he wasn’t alone and hundreds of dads took to the internet to share their similar experiences.

Since then, the internet sensation has launched a petition which has rounded up over sixty thousand signatures on change.org and hopes that as the petition grows, co-operate companies will get on board and install baby changing facilities accessible to both mums and dads.

The man behind the campaign, dad-of-three, Al Ferguson, said it’s a basic requirement.

He said: “If there’s changing facilities in the female toilets, then there should be changing facilities in the male toilets. Standard.

“If we are saying that women need equality in the workplace, then we also need equality for dads in the parenting world.”

Supporting this campaign, drawing from his own parenting struggles is Tonbridge and Malling MP Tom Tugenhadt. He admitted to being forced to change his baby’s nappy on the floor of a Sainsbury’s supermarket as no dad-changing facilities were available.

He said: “These days it’s not male thing or a female thing, it’s just a parent thing, so to have nappy changing facilities is really important.”

Some shopping centre’s across the country including Maidstone’s Fremlin Walk and Tunbridge Wells’ Royal Victoria Palace are equipped to give both mums and dads a space to change their baby and more and more names are changing their toilets to make them accessible.

The DadsNet founder and the thousands of other dads who have signed the petition hope their unanimous voice will make male baby changing facilities, not just a choice, but a necessity.