Should a preschool deal with soiling?

[poomageddon]

Does anyone else go to a preschool where they won't deal with soiling?

Leaving a child in soiled clothes for 2 hours is disgraceful, I'd be looking for a new preschool.

Well I was toilet trained back in the 1970s and I was 3. I am sure there were accidents in the background, just because a child is in pants, does not mean they don't have accidents. I remember at primary school, there was a welfare room with a bunch of spare pants and clothes in case of accidents.

Definatley Aeroflot i distinctly remember a child having an accident when I was in reception at a mainstream primary school and being washed down in a yellow bucket! It would have been 1978/79 !

Exactly, I certainly had a few accidents at school, they always changed me and never called my mum or left me in soiled clothes. That is unacceptable. They cannot use the we only accept young children who are toilet trained, that is a get out card. They still have to cater for accidents as they will happen when you have young children.

Even if each child only has one accident per year that would still be more than one a week for a 2 form entry school

I would never accept a pre school who only catered for children who are toilet trained, as it somehow is a red flag to how they treat kids who have accidents to me. Both my dcs went to a pre school attached to school, and they were very flexible, and accepted that kids will come at different stages of potty training, or they will have accidents.

I've had a letter from the school this morning saying they would deal with anymore accidents.

I should hope so too ,having said that this should never been allowed to happen in the first place !

Agreed. I am still unsure what to do with regard to staying there as I am still appalled it was allowed to happen in first place.

I see dealing with accidents as no different to dealing with any other element of a child's development - some kids may not be able to comprehend as well as others, some may need more help with reading or writing, some may have medical issues, some may have difficulty socialising or have behavioural issues etc etc - all of which could be said detract from core teaching, but all of which need to (and should be) accommodated.

So they should do! I just wish my son school would deal with it. They deal with wetting accidents so I can't understand why they can't deal with a poo accident

2 hours in faeces. It's so cruel.

Can you afford to take him out and put him in somewhere else? You might have to fight to get your costs refunded.

A letter isn't good enough, I'd also put a complaint into OFSTED. Does he have nappy rash now after all that? My boys would be incredibly sore. I'd be tempted to take him to the doctors and get it documented for your complaints.

I don't understand the wee bit not poo thing either. Training? Ffs. Would he be able to manage to change himself if he was guided? Where there's a will, there's a way. It is neglect.

Can't afford somewhere else unless costs refunded, but he will he eligible for some funded hours next term - again, space and places are rare with funded places. My last nursery took funded hours, but had two price tariffs - one where you just paid, and one where some of the hours were "free" but the additional hours that you had to take were three times the price! We left there as it went downhill after new management - staff left in droves - also then got an inadequate ofsted. I had no idea people put their names down for nurseries when they were pregnant which makes waiting lists nuts around here!