Primary school asking parents to not change Nappies in the toilet

Double bag, pop it in the boot of your car and dispose of it at home.

flush the poo. Bag up the dirty nappy and dispose of it when i found a proper bin!

Even if you are unsure to the best thing to do. I can’t fathom why anyone would come to the conclusionleaving poo in a bin or sani bin was the right call.

Schools finish tomorrow no? So itll be September next time. Or a dog poo bin

A public bin, during a heatwave, @Katemax82? 🤢🤮

Isn't there a public bin near the school you can chuck it in on the way home?

Utterly grim and antisocial OP. Flush poo and take nappy home. Simple?

A supplementary point is that the school's main purpose is the education of children. Providing toilet facilities is necessary but secondary, and only a small minority of pupils at a mainstream primary school will require nappy changing facilities. A public toilet, on the other hand, has providing toilet facilities as its main purpose so it would be unreasonable not to provide facilities,it's fir disposing of nappies.

OP says he's starting a specialist school in September.

No they shouldn't.

It's a school. They are obliged to make reasonable adjustments.

Your demand is unreasonable when you could take it with you or use another part of the school.

The fact he's 'escaped' is a separate issue not related to dumping nappies in the wrong place.

If the toilet is an accessible one, then imo they should provide a nappy bin. Otherwise it’s not as accessible as it could be. However, you shouldn’t put anything other than pads/tampons etc in the sanitary bins because that isn’t what they’re for.

You bag it, seal it and take it home. Awful to leave it there.

My 3yr old is on autism pathway, no where near ready for toilet training and I don't even put his nappies in our kitchen bin, they go straight in our black bin bc they stink the bin out. I'd not want to be smelling that.
Take it with you & dispose of it at home.

Why didn’t you take the bag home with you for disposal? Or hand it over for disposal wherever his nappies during the day are disposed of?

I appreciate dealing with your SEN child is difficult but if you don’t want to alienate everyone around you you have to find a way of not forcing them to experience the unsavoury aspects.

FFS. Why an earth didn’t you take it home with you. Or at least flush the poo first. Leaving a dirty nappy in the disabled loo when you know there are no facilities is grim. As someone with a close relative who uses the disabled loos this is particularly awful.

And schools can’t afford to pay for this, they are already stretched beyond belief. They are not a soft play!

Yeah I think it's more than reasonable of them to request that nappies go in the proper bin, sorry.

You could email them and suggest they either get an additional nappy bin or move one of the two they do have to reception, as it makes sense that it's going to be the younger kids who need a nappy bin rather than it being in a random place in the school.

Other than that carry on changing him there but take the nappy home with you. If you don't want it making a smell in your bag/car for 5 mins then surely you can understand why they don't want it making a smell for the whole class, teachers, parents and visitors for a whole day!

Wow OP, you are in the wrong here.

As many others have suggested, you take the nappy with you. Dispose of it elsewhere Problem solved.

Of course, you can't put poo in a sanitary bin.

The options are:

• Take the soiled nappy home with you after changing him at school.
• Alternatively, change him when you arrive and dispose of the nappy in the appropriate bin at the school after you've dropped him off.

OP it's very likely that the support/admin/reception staff would have had to have gone in the stinking hot loo, and emptied the sanitary bin that also contained human poo, themselves and bagged it all up. Sanitary bins have specialist companies that from my experience come round once in a blue moon to empty them. This job would have been putrid, anyone who has ever worked in hospitality and has have to deal with over flowing sanitary bins well tell you how vile this is.

Many of us commenting who do not have sen children who were long potty trained before school can not totally understand your difficulties and what it's like to change a 5 year olds nappy, and I feel for you, it must be hard, but dumping poo in a sanitary bin is completely unacceptable. Do as they ask for now by dispisig of the nappy in the bins provided (with or without your child) and maybe speak to the powers that be at the school about installing a proper nappy bin in that toilet.

the email was perfectly reasonably an polite.

And anyway how many days left do you have of this potentially cropping up?! 1?!

In every school I've taught (including three special schools) the toilets in the lobby/reception area have been for staff and visitors, so did not have nappy bins. The other accessible toilets around the school were for the children, so did have them.
The school is unlikely to pay for a nappy bin in a toilet that is likely to be for adults.

this sounds extreme. Is he in the right setting?

They do. The email states “we have two toilets equipped with dedicated nappy bins”

No it's not. Some accessible toilets include changing facilities, some do not. This one does not. The alternatives she has been directed to obviously do.

Are you serious? Feel this is so insanely entitled it could almost be a reverse.

School's letter is fine.

You can't put a nappy full of shit in a sanitary bin.

HTH.

Talk to. Unless they truly don’t know. It’s gutless.