This FAQ is from the Holiday Programs Management Plan section 11

Bed time and sleeping arrangements

Finlay Park’s accommodation blocks consist of multiple bunk rooms with the number of beds in each room ranging from 5 to 12 beds.

Children can be roomed with other children they chose on their registration form if those children are; of the same sex, in the same age bracket, and have requested the same arrangement. If no requests are made children are put into an appropriate same sex / age cabin.

Finlay Park will not sleep children of one biological sex in a room with children from another biological sex.

Where gender complications have been identified and disclosed to camp staff prior to camp commencing, other arrangements can be made in cooperation with the parents/ caregivers of that child. Finlay Park will always work with the parents/ caregivers to reach a satisfactory outcome.

In order to meet Finlay Park’s health and safety requirements a gender diverse child can be accommodated if;

• Finlay Park has an available cabin for the child and,
• Finlay Park is able to provide two leaders to supervise in the cabin next to the child during the night and,
• A separate bathroom is available for the child’s use, and
• The parents / caregivers are satisfied the child will need to join the biologically same sex group for activity, chapel, game and recreation and meal times.

All cabin groups are supervised by cabin leaders and camp staff. Finlay Park aims to always sleep two leaders in a cabin group. If this is not possible, younger cabins have priority for two leaders, and older cabins either have one or no leader in their cabin. The utmost care is taken to select the right leader for the right cabin.

Bed times are arranged in such a way to accommodate the age of the children.