During World Continence Week, ERIC, The Children’s Bowel & Bladder Charity, met with key figures from the children’s health, education and social care sectors in Parliament to discuss the importance of potty training children a year earlier.

Potty training children a year earlier could solve a host of issues in the education and health service and improve children’s overall health and wellbeing — so why aren’t policymakers pushing forward measures to support families doing it sooner?