Some 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. Our one-to-one support provides extra help after attending a bladder and bowel webinar. Parents are encouraged to apply the strategies from the webinar for three months before accessing this support.

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 will:
  • 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
  • recommend that you consider involving your child’s school
  • signpost you to useful resources and websites to support your progress.