States shall provide assistance to parents and legal guardians in performing their child-rearing responsibilities. In order to enable parents, especially working parents to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public life, States have to establish child care institutions, facilities and services for which they are eligible. This indicator examines availability of such services for all working parents including those in the unorganised (informal) sector and those residing in rural and remote areas.
Convention on the Rights of the Child, Articles 18.2, 18.3, General Comment No. 7 (paras. 21, 40); Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Article 11.2 (c), General Comment No. 34 (paras. 43.g and 52.h) and General Comment No. 35 (para. 31.a.iii); Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183) of the International Labour Organization.