Toilet training – or rather, lack of it – is increasingly hitting the headlines. This year started with parents in Blaenau Gwent in Wales being told that they had to go into school to change their children's nappies and pull-ups unless there was a ‘medically recognised need’.
Then, 70 per cent of 1,000 primary school teachers reported that rising numbers of children starting school before they were toilet trained was having a negative impact on their classes.
The survey on school readiness by early years charity Kindred Squared1 found that one in four children who began Reception in September 2024 needed help with toileting. This resulted in 45 per cent of teachers saying they had needed to allocate more time or staff to deal with children's personal care and hygiene.
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