The Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes parents and other primary caregivers as children’s first educators.  The Committee on the Rights of the Child in its General Comment 7 (paras.

This indicator examines if the national laws and/or policies have provisions  in relation to ‘school health services’ in schools  including ECCE centres. School health services  refers to services such as health screening, immunisation services, vitamin supplements, preventive health education and counselling services to children.

This indicator examines if the national law or policies have provision to provide free school meals in schools including ECCE centres.

Teenage pregnancy is a complex social issue often caused by human rights violations such as gender-based violence against girls, child marriage, lack of access to sexual and reproductive health services, and lack of access to education. Often these violations happen to the most marginalised girls, particularly girls with disabilities, girls living in poverty, and girls living in rural areas.

This indicator examines the existence of legislative or policy provisions  guaranteeing  children living with mothers in prisons to have access to equal education including ECCE/pre-primary education.

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.

Home or community-based ECCE programmes refers to one of the recommended modes of service delivery options for ECCE programmes, aimed to increase quality access to ECCE, reach out the most marginalised community and offer early learning experiences in a familiar, localised environment. These programmes are provided either directly in a child's home by a caregiver or within the community setting like a local centre or neighbourhood facility.

This indicator examines if the schools, including ECCE centres, provide school health services such as health screening, immunisation services, vitamin supplements, preventive health education and counselling services to children.

This indicator examines if the schools, including ECCE centres, provide free school meals that are nutritionally adequate and culturally appropriate and safe for all children in order to improve children’s education, health and nutrition.

This indicator examines if the State has sufficient number of public schools, including ECCE centres, to accommodate the needs of children in both rural and urban areas having access to public education.