Implementation of the Guidelines i.e. indoor-outdoor programs for the full day and/or offering all free play outdoors
In order to measure implementation of the Guidelines, that is; (i) offering an indoor-outdoor program for the full day; and (ii) offering more time outdoors, Nominated Supervisors were asked to provide an estimation of the total time (in minutes) provided for unstructured child-initiated free play per day in the past week. Following this, services were asked to report how much of this free play time (in minutes) was offered as indoor-only free play; outdoor-only free play; or indoor-outdoor free play.Services were categorised as implementing the Guidelines if they reported all free play being offered as outdoor-only and/or indoor-outdoor for the full day. Services that reported providing any indoor-only free play time (> 0 min) were categorised as not implementing the Guidelines.Survey items assessing Guideline implementation was assessed in a random sub-sample (approximately 50%) of services, in order to reduce survey length and burden to the Nominated Supervisor.