A recent survey has found that teachers and staff in schools around the UK are having significant issues with children not being toilet trained when they start school.
The National Foundation for Educational Research carried out the survey on 602 teachers in primary schools and 561 teachers in secondary schools.
The survey found that 16,000 primary schools in the UK have experienced at least one child between the ages of 5 and 7 still wearing nappies in the last year.
Janet Marsh runs a programme on behalf of the Kent Community Health NHS Trust that helps to teach children how to toilet train.
She has said that she has experience of older children, 14 or 15 years-old, without medical conditions, who were not toilet trained: "It's an incredibly serious situation ... There are children who miss 25% of their education in Reception because they're being taken out to be changed. How are they going to catch up?"
Experts also said that the issue is in no way limited to children's backgrounds and that many have "working parents too busy to address the issue."
