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Useful links

Activities, information and guidance to help you practise these skills at home.

Find guidance and support with potty training from: 

  • ERIC, the Children’s Bowel and Bladder Charity
  • Bladder and Bowel UK
  • Institute of Health Visiting
  • CBeebies Parenting
  • ERIC Helpline Podcast: Potty training
  • Department for Education - help for early years providers

Find more information about diet for children who are potty training: 

  • Ideas for what to feed over 12 months - Start for Life, NHS
  • Young children and food: common questions - NHS

Find advice and guidance about constipation in children: 

  • Constipation in children – ERIC

Find out more about night time bedwetting: 

  • Advice for children with night time wetting - ERIC
  • ERIC Helpline podcast: Bedwetting

Potty training advice and guidance specifically for families with children who have additional needs: 

    • Advice about bladders, bowels and toileting for children with additional needs - ERIC
    • Family Guide: Support with toileting - Dingley’s Promise
    • Toilet Training - Down Syndrome UK
    • Toileting and autistic children - National Autistic Society
    • Potty training children with additional needs - ERIC
    • Potty training children with additional needs – CBeebies Parenting
    • ERIC Helpline podcast: potty training children with additional needs - ERIC

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