Welcome to Sisters In Law, news.com.au’s weekly column solving all of your legal problems. This week, our resident lawyers and real-life sisters Alison and Jillian Barrett from Maurice Blackburn advise on the legalities of gendered change rooms.
I volunteer at a local swimming pool that’s open in my small community during the summer months. We had an incident last week where a mum brought her son in the changing rooms with her and another customer complained. Her son was 12 but was very tall for his age and looked older.
There are no specific legal regulations defining an age limit for when boys can enter changing rooms with their mothers . Having your own policies and communicating these to users of the pool is a good step towards ensuring everyone knows the expected standards of behaviour and feels safe. In that regard, you need to balance the safety concerns of the boy’s mother with the concerns of others in the changerooms.
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