Clean, dry and ready to start school
Clare Slater-Robins Integrated service manager (health), Suffolk County Council children and young people services
Judith Potter Staff nurse, health visiting team, Suffolk County Council children and young people services
Becky Coxall Children Centre Manager, Suffolk County Council children and young people services
Jannice Simpson Children Centre Manager, Suffolk County Council children and young people services
Amber Begg Children Centre Manager, Suffolk County Council children and young people services
When teachers in Suffolk raised concerns that children were starting school still wearing nappies, Clare Slater-Robins and colleagues came up with an innovative project to help parents to toilet train their children
Ensuring children are ‘clean and dry’ and ready to learn when they start school is an important theme in the action week on children’s health (November 17-21) run by the Department of Health and Public Health England. In this article, staff from South and West Ipswich Locality discuss how they created a package of information and support on potty training, along with free potties.
Nursing Standard.
29, 12, 22-23.
doi: 10.7748/ns.29.12.22.s26
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