Pooh-poohing school toilet polices: (More than) leaky bodies as resistance for school children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Wilkinson, C and Budworth, P (2025) Pooh-poohing school toilet polices: (More than) leaky bodies as resistance for school children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Children's Geographies. ISSN 1473-3285

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Abstract

Nappies, ‘poonamis1’, milestones associated with potty and toilet training, episodes of stool withholding, common childhood ailments or medication side effects which cause constipationand diarrhoea – poo is a dominant feature of babies and children’s lives. As infants grow, develop, and reach school age, bodily containment is expected and spillages and leaks are less tolerated. Considering this, more extensive research exploring how children navigate everyday spaces, such as school, with bowel-related illness is needed within Geography

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Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Children's Geographies. Wilkinson, C., & Budworth, P. (2025). Pooh-poohing school toilet policies: (more than) leaky bodies as resistance for school children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Children’s Geographies, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2025.2467276. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1205 Urban and Regional Planning; 1604 Human Geography; 1607 Social Work; 3304 Urban and regional planning; 3903 Education systems; 4406 Human geography
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services
Divisions:	Education
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
Date of acceptance:	30 January 2025
Date Deposited:	05 Mar 2025 09:04
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2025 12:54
DOI or ID number:	10.1080/14733285.2025.2467276
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25785

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