Intimate Care and Nappy Changing Policy

A dignified, safe and hygienic approach to nappy changing, toileting and intimate care, with safeguarding controls, an individual intimate care plan and a nappy change record.

Editable Word document
7
10pages
Guidance notes included
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Childcare

Intimate Care and Nappy Changing Policy

About this document

What it’s for

Explains how staff carry out nappy changing, toilet training and other intimate care in a way that respects children’s dignity, protects them from harm, protects staff from allegations, and meets hygiene and infection control standards.

When to use it

  • In any setting caring for children who wear nappies or need help with toileting
  • When a child has additional needs that require intimate care
  • At induction and annual safeguarding training

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

  1. Policy statement
  2. Who provides intimate care
  3. Where and how
  4. Hygiene and infection control
  5. Safeguarding
  6. Children with additional needs
  7. Toilet training

Also included

  • Schedule 1 – Individual intimate care plan
  • Schedule 2 – Nappy change and toileting record

How to complete it

  • Fill in who may carry out intimate care and where
  • Agree an intimate care plan for children with additional needs
  • Keep the nappy change record each day

Key points to check

  • Only staff with an enhanced DBS check with barred list check may carry out intimate care
  • Students and volunteers should only do so under your policy and supervision

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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