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An Early Learning and Care setting should place children at the heart of the community. The location and site design should provide an optimum environment for children, while promoting positive relationships between children, families, practitioners and the wider community.

Entering and moving around an ELC setting should be easy and enjoyable. Circulation spaces should be accessible, understood and easily used. It should provide stimulating social spaces for discovery, play, engaging with others, and interacting with the environment.

Universally Designed Early Learning and Care settings should provide internal and external spaces that support the needs of all users and provide an optimum environment for all children’s learning and care.

Children interact with elements and systems in an intense manner, through playing, running, crawling, lying on the floor, and investigating their world. Therefore, these must be carefully considered as part of a Universally Designed Early Learning and Care setting.