Nursery asking us to come and change nappy

[fari2014]

Hi,

My son has place in nursery connected to school. The nursery saying they don't have nappy changing facilities and if child soils themselves or nappy needs changing. They will call parents to come and do it.

Is this normal? Do all nurseries connected to school do this?

Have you worked in school nurseries like this ratio 1 to 13 or private day care ratio 1 to 8? School nursery generally don't have nappy change areas and have to send child to medical in the main school. A few more modern units have a space to cater for SEND but expect most children to be trained as they are over 3

Lots of school nurseries take from 2 tho. If my twins had started at 2, they'd have been 2 years and 2 weeks, they def weren't toilet trained and it would be frankly ridiculous to expect me to come every hour or so to change a bum.

And its disgraceful that the expectation is that so long as a few places can accommodate SEND kids then that's fine

Could you have him go part time instead? So he can still get a place at the school but you’re not going back and forwards constantly part time is 3 hours a, day. If I left my sons in a nappy for 3 hours it would be soaked and liable to leaking.

Maybe it's different where you are here they won't take 2 year olds and to be honest they wouldn't get the same care they need ad there are 40 children am and pm with 4 staff. I personally don't think the ratio is great just becouse one is a fully qualified teacher dosent mean a 3 year old needs less adult attention all research shows 2 year olds need more 1 to 1 not less especially after lock down.

We don't have 1 to 10 ratio at 2, there's liej a dozen kids and 4 staff. 3 goes up to 30 for 4 staff (same staff)

If you have a qualified teacher the ratio is 1 to 13

having An autistic teenager who has never been out of nappies and has no safety or danger awareness I can also confirm she is very intelligent, communicates via technology and has attended main stream school . Schools can’t refuse children in nappies regardless of age or disability. I’m aware of a neuro typical child who wears pull-ups to school due to simply a week bladder and she does need help from the teaching assistant to change at times

I find this really strange especially with SEN. My 5 year olds in reception and has ASD and GDD he is still in nappies at school. He goes to a tiny mainstream school and they don’t necessarily have a space to change him, but they find somewhere private to do it and its never been a problem. I would be looking for another setting if they said they couldn’t do it. There is no chance my child could “sort himself out” if he was to have a accident.