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Chapter 2 Establishment standards
Section 1 Nursery service center
Article 5
Nursery service centers shall provide children being nursed with learning activities and games available for full development, assisting them to successfully complete their development in each stage and offer the following services according to individual needs:
1. Children’s life care;
2. Children’s developmental learning;
3. Children’s health care;
4. Parental education and support of family function;
5. Record children’s life growth, and offer consultation and transfer;
6. Others which may benefit children’s healthy physical and mental development.
The preceding nursery service centers that have already nursed children aged two before entering early childhood schools according to provisions of Early Childhood Education and Care Act shall continue to nurse for a period not exceeding one year.
Article 6
Nursery service centers are classified into the following three nursing categories:
1.Half-day nursery: Nursery per day less than six hours;
2.Day time nursery: Nursery per day more than six hours but less than twelve hours;
3.Temporary nursery: Children’s parents, guardians, or the people who actually take care of children deliver children to be nursed due to temporary events.
The temporary nursery time (in subparagraph 3) in the preceding paragraph may not exceed the total nursery time of the half-day nursery (subparagraph 1) and day time nursery (subparagraph 2).
Article 7
Nursery service centers shall be in fixed locations with full and exclusive areas, in which the buildings are limited to using the ground floor and floors from the first to the third, and shall report to competent authorities collaterally using underground space on the first floor as administrative or storage rooms for the purposes of non-children activity spaces.
Article 8
Nursery service centers shall be equipped with the following spaces:
1.Activity areas: Indoor or outdoor spaces for living, learning, playing, and operating educational tools and toys;
2.Sleeping areas: Spaces for sleeping and resting;
3.Restroom sanitary facilities: Spaces for washing hands, faces, toileting, and bathing;
4.Cleaning areas: Spaces for cleaning and nursing;
5.Kitchens: Spaces for cooking meals;
6.Meal preparation areas: Spaces for preparing milk and foods;
7.Dining areas: Spaces for dining;
8.Administrative management areas: Space for office, reception, and healthcare;
9.Other service-related necessary spaces;
The aforementioned spaces shall be appropriately labeled. The activity area in subparagraph 1 should be properly zoned in accordance with the scale of nursery, children of different ages, and development capabilities. Also, the spaces in subparagraph 3 and 4 shall be separated from those in subparagraph 6 and 7.
Spaces in each subparagraph above shall be adjusted and combined according to the following rules:
1.Spaces specified in subparagraph 2, 4, and 7 shall be installed in indoor spaces specified in subparagraph 1;
2.Spaces specified in subparagraph 2 and 7 shall be combined; the same as those in subparagraph 5 and 6;
3.Spaces specified in subparagraph 4 shall be installed in those in Paragraph 3.
Subparagraph 4 of paragraph 1 shall be provided with bathtub and nursing station; subparagraph 6 shall be provided with milk preparation station
Article 9
Indoor floor area and outdoor activity areas in a nursery service center, excluding non-children main activity areas, such as sanitary room, kitchen, meal preparation area, administrative management area, storage room, firefighting space, stairs and balcony, legal parking zone and arcade shall be more than sixty square meters in total.
Indoor floor areas in the preceding main activity space offered for children shall not be smaller than 2 square meters per person, and outdoor activity areas shall not be smaller than 1.5 square meters per person. If there is no or insufficient outdoor activity area, it shall be replaced with an indoor floor area of 1.5 square meters per person.
Article 10
Nursery service centers shall provide children with one specific and fixed sitting toilet respectively to their growth. If there are over 20 children, add one toilet for every 15 children. If there are less than 15 children, counted as 15 children, and install one faucet to be available for 10 nursed children. If there are less than 10 children, it is counted as 10 children.
Article 11
Nursery service centers shall have a full-time supervisor to be responsible for overall management business, and at least one special doctor or nursing personnel; one nursing personnel shall be appointed for every 5 nursed children, which will be counted as 5 children even if there are less than 5 children.
Article 12
Nursery service centers shall not reject children for reasons of developmental delay, disabilities or that their families are low-income or middle and low-income.