Toileting, intimate and personal care

Preschool is committed to ensuring that all staff responsible for the intimate care of children undertake their duties in a professional manner at all times. All children are treated with respect and care.

  • All staff need a cleared enhanced DBS check before they are allowed to tend to children’s intimate care

  • Staff know to be aware of any signs of symptoms of abuse

  • Intimate care should be carried out away from onlookers but with an open door for the safety of all

  • Potties and toilets are provided both indoors and out

  • Outside the children are changed in the enclosed toilet area

  • Children in the SEND provision are changed on a changing mat on the floor or in the case of high dependency children, on a specialised changing table

  • Apparatus will be provided to assist with children who need special arrangements following assessment from physiotherapist/occupational therapist as required

  • Children are encouraged to be as independent as possible in their own care but are encouraged to ask for help to they need it

  • Staff work in partnership with parents to support potty/toilet training a handout is also available

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Please provide nappies each session if needed, preschool supplies wipes.

Procedure for nappy changing at preschool

  • Children in nappies are changed regularly

  • When children need changing a member of staff will take them to a changing area

  • Staff will put on gloves to tend to children

  • Children are encouraged to be as independent as possible

  • Nappies are put into bags, provided by preschool, then into the bin

  • The changing mat needs to be sprayed and wiped with antibacterial cleaner after every use

  • If clothes need to be changed then the child’s own spare clothes are to be used first, as provided by parents, if none are available then preschool can provide spares

  • Any wet/soiled clothing is put in a wet bag, provided by preschool, and into the child’s box to take home

  • All toilets and potties are cleaned daily

We would ask that all borrowed wet bags are washed at home and returned as soon as possible, many thanks.

Preschool support with potty/toilet training

  • Staff will work with you to support you and your child when you embark upon potty/toilet training and will feedback to you regularly

  • We have books that we can share with you to take home about this as well as a leaflet made by staff

  • We have books we share with the children about potty training that parents can also borrow to read at home

  • Please make sure you send your child in with at least two full changes of clothing and multiple pants, any wet clothes will be sent back in a bag, however, if your child does a poo that can’t be tipped out (!) or the pants are beyond saving they will be put in the bin

  • Please try not to use pull ups or put pants over nappies, it doesn’t help your child, just put pants on them so they can feel if they are wet

  • Please ensure you dress your child in loose clothing that is easy to get down at speed, e.g. jogging bottoms - not jeans, waterproof dungarees should be done up on the outside of clothing

  • Staff will encourage your child to go to the toilet regularly, however, we are a very busy setting so they will tend to do this at regular optimal intervals e.g. when we stop for snack or group time

  • Please remember that even if your child has been doing really well at home, they have many more distractions at preschool so may struggle to start with

  • Please be realistic, while at home, you have the opportunity to take your child to the toilet frequently, at preschool we do not work one to one with the children and are often helping to potty train a number of children at once

  • Don’t feel pressurised into potty training, there is no hurry however, it really helps to start to familiarise your child with toilets and potties as soon as possible, have a potty in the house, get your child to sit on it or the loo, talk about what its for, do all this way before they stop using nappies

  • Please don’t be too annoyed if they wet themselves, its all a learning process, your disappointment can have a really negative impact on your child’s wellbeing and progress

  • Try not to swap between nappies and pants, though we do understand many children will still be in a nappy at night

  • If you would like advice on when to start potty training, please talk to staff

  • More advice can be found on ERIC the bladder and bowel charity website

 

Feb 24