049-3 Wyo. Code R. §§ 3-21 - Bedrooms
(a) The facility
and foster home shall have sufficient bedroom space to allow at least
seventy-five (75) square feet for the first occupant of a bedroom, and fifty
(50) square feet for each additional occupant.
(b) Windows in rooms designated sleeping
areas shall be adequate for emergency escape or rescue. For all facilities
required to have fire inspection those windows shall be approved by the
certifying fire authority.
(i) Exception:
facilities licensed as Juvenile Detention Centers or secure Residential
Treatment Centers.
(c)
Each child shall be provided with room and board and is to be assigned a
bedroom which shall include, as a minimum, an individual bed, mattress,
mattress cover, pillow, supply of bed linen and space for the storage of
personal items. There shall be no more than four (4) children to a facility or
foster home bedroom.
(d) Children
of the opposite sex shall not sleep in the same room. In the case of foster
homes, children of the opposite sex may sleep in the same bedroom, if they are
biological siblings and if under age eight (8), unless written approval is
given by the DFS caseworker stating that it is in the children's best interest
to share a room.
(e) Staff and
foster parents shall never share a bed or bedroom with a child in
care.
Notes
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