Mayflower primary school - nappy changing facilities for school aged children

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AIBU to think this shouldn't be necessary?

Not including those with sen, children should be potty trained before starting school - AIBU?

@Kirbert2but this doesn’t explain why this has increased so much in the last 5 years

All I know is that I change an older child multiple times a day and I can't imagine that anyone would choose this as the ''lazy'' option. It is hard work and obviously not at all pleasant with an older child's waste.

Toilet training is the easier option if a child is capable.

Imagine spending years training to be a teacher and you end up having to spend parts of your day changing nappies, no wonder there is a shortage of teachers.

It usually isn't teachers.

My son needs multiple changes at school. His teacher has never changed him and isn't even named on his intimate care plan.

Even before the pandemic they were doubling the capacity for special school places in my LA in all four special schools so somethings is going on
I i suspect there are a few contributing factors,,expanded population, , in my LA there is a large ethnic minority population where interfamilial,marriage is popular which unfortunately can mean inherited genetic disorders are far more prevalent in certain demographic groups
Of course there will always be some lazy feckless parents ,but it's to simple,to lay the blame entirely with them

Yes this is what I don't understand why people think it's the easy option it's not my son,was in nappies untill he was 9/10 due ti his Disabilities, it's not the walk in the park in people think it is.

I get your point - I suspect the answer is it's just really, really complicated and there's lots of factors. (And a bit of media exaggeration).

But could one factor be we know mental health issues are increasing, and new mums are obviously at risk for postpartum depression which if untreated can hang around for years. We also know families living below the poverty line are increasing, and as a result there are more families in debt, more families using food banks, more families at risk of loosing their homes. All of this can lead to families having less resilience and less ability to find a solution where it isn't an easy process. There have been so many cuts to so many services many families are left barely coping with many different aspects of their lives.

But I don't think this is the answer in isolation - I don't think there is one easy answer. But I absolutely disagree that it is "just lazy parents" and I really feel like attacking parents in the first instance is just wrong (not that I'm saying you are - this just seems to often be the answer).

And even if it is related to parents starting later (and possibly this is one factor), this is a societal issue due to the advice being handed out all over the place and not that individual parents are being lazy.

Exactly. I can always tell when someone has never changed an older child when they call it lazy.

It’s a chicken and egg situation.

Nowadays larger nappies are available.

Is it that the later training is happening because of the larger nappies or
that the larger nappies are available because of the later training?

Larger nappies will be for disabled children too.