To ask nursery to use cloth nappies?

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DS (17 months) is at nursery two days a week, and up to now I've provided disposable nappies for them, while he's in cloth at home. Am thinking of asking nursery to use cloth, but wondered if anyone has experience of this? Will they be at me?

Someone upthread mentioned that you can 'insist' that childcare settings use cloth nappies. That's kind of true but something to be a bit wary of, as complaints sit on providers records for some time, even if not upheld.
My understanding is that there are two points on which you could insist : discrimination and relating to the ofsted assessment point which used to be called something like 'working in partnership with parents and carers' and comes under development and welfare (I think, totally not an expert!).
Anyway, my personal opinion is that if you want your childcare setting to use reusable nappies, and they don't want to, I'd exhaust all other options before resorting to ofsted.

granny put it wrong way round ☹️

used cloth when training (!1960)

They will have to accommodate you.
It's part of inclusion and equality, and will come under EYFS and Great British Values.
Nurseries have to follow parent preferences, which is what this comes under.
Worked in nurseries for years and more common than people realise.
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I cant imagine anyone having a problem if you supplied all-in-ones.

Our nursery was happy to use them. Why wouldn't they? You are not asking them to wash them?

Lots of nurseries ban them for hygiene reasons. Disposables can be put in sealed bags and the whole bin bag taken to an outdoor bin if it gets smelly. Cloth nappies need soaking, so unless they have a room separate from the toilet it's not safe or pleasant to have buckets of dirty nappies! They reek. And every child in cloth would need their own bucket unless parents were happy for their nappies to soak in a communal bucket 🤢
Or you could provide a wet bag but IME they don't contain the smell and liquid seeps through.

I feel sorry for nursery staff who have to scrape poo off cloth nappies, rinse them by hand, soak, wring out and package them up to take home. Disposables are so much quicker and more hygienic in childcare environments. We used cloth at home for a few months but it never occurred to me to send her to nursery in cloth, I don't think it's fair on others.

I wouldn't like my child washing their hands in a sink that had been used to rinse out soiled nappies, or having to use the loo/potty in the same room as a putrid nappy bucket!

The nursery I’m at take cloth nappies. They just get put in the child’s wet bag to take home and liners in nappy bin. Just ask your nursery what they do.