Training for healthcare professionals

High quality paediatric continence training courses for healthcare professionals, covering healthy and complex bladders and bowels, nocturnal enuresis and toilet training children with additional needs. Find out more about our standard courses here.

Click on the courses below for information on our upcoming training events and to book your place, or contact our Learning & Development Manager - tel: 0117 301 2102, email: [email protected].

In addition to our one-day courses, we also offer bespoke training to meet your team's specific requirements.

Toilet Training, including Children with Autism and other Additional Needs - London

Course, aimed at health and education professionals, looking at how to train children in bowel and bladder control with particular attention given to children with learning difficulties and additional needs. Read more

Healthy Bladders & Bowels, including Constipation & Daytime Wetting - Solihull

Course examining how children’s bladders and bowels work and what can go wrong. Learn how to manage constipation, daytime wetting and promote general continence. Read more

Nocturnal Enuresis - Glasgow

Course, aimed at health and education professionals, introducing the 'Three Systems' model for understanding bedwetting, with a focus on a child-orientated, evidence-based approach to enuresis treatment.Read more

Latest

Parent and Carer Workshop - Gloucester

Workshop and networking event for parents and carers of children experiencing bladder and bowel difficulties, ranging from toilet training to persistent wetting and soiling and managing complex conditions.

Nocturnal Enuresis - Glasgow

Potty training - taking control: parent workshop, March 19

Workshop aimed at parents and carers of children under five giving you all the information you need to successfully potty train your child.

ERIC Review of 2018

It’s been a busy year at ERIC. Here’s just a snapshot of some of the things we got up to in 2018.

Guides to children's bowel and bladder problems

Free resources to help with potty training, day/night time wetting and bowel problems.

Top 10 potty training tips

Top 10 potty training tips from the experts in toileting. Use these tips to successfully teach your child to use the potty.

How to treat constipation

Childhood constipation is treatable. The earlier it’s recognised, the easier it is to treat. Find out how laxatives, diet, toilet routine & anal irrigation help.

Bowel problems: FAQs

Answers to common questions about children's bowel problems covering constipation, faecal soiling, laxative treatment and children with additional needs.

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

Insisting on wearing a nappy to poo is normal for kids who are potty training, but some would happily poo in a nappy for years. Break the habit with these tips.

A Parent's Guide to Disimpaction

If your child has been constipated for more than a few days your doctor or nurse may recommend a disimpaction regime. This means giving laxatives in sufficiently large quantities to ‘clear out’ all the accumulated poo. Read our Parent's Guide to Disimpaction.