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Charity's toilet training course aims to help children be 'school ready'

A course to support early years professionals to help children with toilet training and ensure they are ‘school ready’ is running in May.
ERIC's training course, running in May, is designed to help early years practitioners support children with potty training
ERIC's training course, running in May, is designed to help early years practitioners support children with potty training

It comes after research revealed earlier in the month that huge numbers of children are starting school ‘developmentally delayed’, including not being toilet trained or able to understand basic instructions.

The Kindred Squared study, based on a survey of 900 teachers, found 90 per cent have one child in their class who is not able to use the toilet.

ERIC ‘s Supporting Children’s Toilet Training course on 4 and 11 May (two half days) for early years professionals, teaching assistants and family support workers, provides an overview of how bowels and bladders work and covers the problems that can arise during toilet training, including best practice advice on how to manage or overcome common childhood continence problems.

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