News

Resources for Children's Bladder and Bowel Issues

Date: 11 Apr 2025

The below list is all the up-to-date links from ERIC continence charity. Please do share these with staff and parents/carers. 

 

Information re Bladder and Bowel issues in Schools

School toilets - ERIC

Podcast Episode 5 - Managing toileting issues at school - ERIC

Intimate care policy for nurseries, school and colleges - ERIC

Individual health care plan - ERIC

Managing at school and college - ERIC

Making the leap to secondary school - ERIC

Sample School Toilet Policy

School toilet charter - ERIC

Video: Helping children with toileting difficulties to use the toilets at school - ERIC

Training for education professionals - ERIC

ERIC links for Children’s Bladder and Bowel issues

Home - ERIC

Information in other languages - ERIC

Support for families - ERIC

ERIC Helpline Podcast - ERIC

How to get kids to drink more water - ERIC

Toilet anxiety and toilet phobia in children - ERIC

Vibrating alarm watches – ERIC, The Children's Bowel & Bladder Charity

Clothing – Tagged "Pants for daytime wetting"– ERIC, The Children's Bowel & Bladder Charity

Bladder issues

Advice about children's bladders and bowels – from birth, to potty training, to school - ERIC

Advice about bladders, bowels and toileting for children with additional needs - ERIC

Advice about children's bladders and bowels – from birth, to potty training, to school - ERIC

Children’s bladder health: bladder problems and incontinence - ERIC

Bedwetting – reasons and how to stop it - ERIC

Wee withholding - ERIC

Advice for children with daytime bladder problems - ERIC

Teenagers and young people - ERIC

Bowel issues

Stool withholding: why & how to stop a child holding poo - ERIC

Children who will only poo in a nappy and other toilet avoiders - ERIC

Advice for children with constipation - ERIC

A parent's guide to disimpaction - ERIC

How to use macrogol laxatives - ERIC

The Poo Nurses explain disimpaction using macrogol laxatives - ERIC

Bowel washouts -AF Actif Kids Guide – Print_1 - New Brand.cdr

Podcast Episode 2 - Children that will only poo in a nappy - ERIC

Children with additional needs

Potty training children with additional needs - ERIC

Treating constipation in children with additional needs - ERIC

Advice about bladders, bowels and toileting for children with additional needs - ERIC

Help with toileting - ERIC

Constipation and autism - ERIC

Interoception and toileting - ERIC

Toileting support for autistic children - ERIC