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Is this the norm, school nurseries

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Hollies98 · 08/05/2025 16:05

I met up with a friend to do the school run. Her dc is in the school now nursery. Age 3 and a half .. she was running round lifting her school dress and her nappy was that low, looked as if it’d been on all day. Is this the norm? are schools not required to change nappies?

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CopperWhite · 08/05/2025 16:39

School nursery should support them to change their own pull up, but really shouldn’t even need to do that at 3 and a half with no other SEN. Saying that, pull ups are a huge part of the problem of so many children being late to toilet train nowadays, but that’s not the staffs fault.

MrsFaustus · 08/05/2025 16:33

I know others will come on but sschool nurseries are not allowed to refuse to have children who are not toilet trained. Don’t know about private schools though…. It seems it’s not uncommon these days for ND children to be in nappies when they start school. I know the school I taught at 15 years ago was told non toilet trained children had to be admitted. Strangely the nursery nurses managed to get most oft hem trained pretty quickly.

TurnThatLightOn · 08/05/2025 16:32

Our local school nursery doesn't take children in nappies. They start age 3.

1AngelicFruitCake · 08/05/2025 16:31

No, school nursery should help her to change out of it or even better, be in the process of toilet training and wearing knickers/underpants.

School nursery shouldn’t have children wearing nappies unless every effort has been made, medical advice has been sought etc.

KenIsAnAccessory · 08/05/2025 16:30

Sounds odd to me. Mine have gone to school nursery from 2. Nappies changed up until they potty trained at 3 or thereabouts.

FanofLeaves · 08/05/2025 16:29

If she was still in a nappy she wouldn’t have been able to attend any school nursery that I know, unless she had specific needs.

shakeneggs · 08/05/2025 16:19

Surely she needs to be out of nappies with school approaching in September… unless medically needed.

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