Aussie Childcare Network Forum

Hi,

Just wanting to clarify what "unencumbered" means in the regulatory space requirements. Does it mean just the open floor space or is furniture included in the calculations?

Thanks in advance

That's what I was thinking too. The rooms at my centre seem too small and cluttered to be holding the amount of children that they have been assessed as being able to hold. Will clarify with my manager whether the furniture was included in the calculations. And I'm assuming the space requirements are in place so that children aren't packed in too tight? My centre seems to be using them as a means of packing in as many children as possible. Seems way too similar to the whole free range chickens issue. Kids are not chickens

3.25sm per child indoors is calculated by the space across the whole building, not the space in the actual room where the children are. Stupid as the space in the room is where you would assume