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Toileting support for your child

Published: 17/05/2024
Last edited: 17/05/2024
Code: 01254

Understanding our child FAQ headerSome children and young people need further support to help them learn how to stay clean and dry. Kent School Health Service offers one-to-one support to help you and your child if you’ve accessed advice and resources and not made progress as yet on your own.

What support is available?

  • One of our Kent School Health practitioners will introduce the service and arrange to meet with you either face-to-face or via a phone call, depending on what would suit your family.
  • You will be asked to fill in some charts including a readiness for toileting assessment, a fluid input and output charts. We will also talk about the types of things you have already tried to toilet train your child. These will help us assess what might most benefit you and your child. We may need to close your referral if you’re not able to complete these so please get in touch if you need any support to complete them.
  • Our practitioner will discuss confidentiality and gain your consent to share information if appropriate.
  • We may suggest you speak to your GP to check if your child has any medical or physiological causes that need to be investigated.
  • During your one-to-one session we can:
    • identify some goals that you can review over the weeks to see how your child is progressing
    • suggest ways to encourage and engage your child including a reward system
    • suggest you consider involving your child’s school
    • signpost you to useful resources and websites to support your progress.

Contact us

If you have any concerns, you don’t need to wait for us to visit your child’s school, you can contact us at any time. You can also access our services if your child is not attending school.

Phone 0300 123 5205 and select option two.

Parents/carers can complete an online referral form. You will receive a confirmation email that your referral has been submitted. If you don't get an email within a few minutes, check your junk folder in case it has gone there or call 0300 123 5205 and select option two to speak to a member of the team.

Young people aged 11 to 19 can text ChatHealth to have direct access to a nurse (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm) on 07520 618850. This service is confidential and anonymous.

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You can find lots of helpful information to support your child's development, and keep them healthy and safe in our Kent Child and Kent Teen sections of the Kent Family website. Check out young people's websites Kent Youth Health and Moodspark.

 

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