A CHILD was left to sit in wet clothes after being refused a request to use a toilet at a school run by an under-fire academy ...

Image caption, Even before they're ready to give up nappies, try sitting your child on the potty or toilet once or twice a day to get them used to the feeling. Using stories, visual charts ...

A third of children are turning up to reception not ready for school with teachers wasting two and a half hours every day ...

For almost two years, two young siblings endured abuse and neglect from their father, including being confined naked in the toilet for almost 10 months. The man, who had trained in silat, taekwondo ...

Some children may prefer to go straight to using the toilet, in which case it is best if they use a children’s toilet seat and a step stool. This will help them to feel secure and relaxed.

However, as children transition back into school, some have completely lost the ability to use the toilet independently despite being well past the age when they should have outgrown diapers.

About one in four children are not toilet trained when they start school ... an increase in school-age children not being able to use the bathroom independently since the Covid-19 pandemic.

But Torfaen Borough Council’s director of education said no direct concerns over a lack of potty training have been raised by schools but did say an increase in children with behaviour problems linked ...