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.

Violence against children is widespread, across different cultures and societies. It occurs everywhere including homes, schools and streets; in places of work and entertainment, and care and detention centres.

This includes norms, standards, and guidelines set for infrastructure facilities and safety in schools and other educational institutions including ECCE centres, either in the domestic law or by the Ministry of Education or other relevant ministries or by the statutory bodies. This indicator assesses if such norms are set either by law or policies.

A multiethnic, multicultural, and linguistically representative teaching workforce is desirable to ensure equal and quality inclusive education for children belonging to diverse origins. In order to ensure equal access and quality outcomes for children of minority, multi-ethnic, migrant, indigenous or different home-language backgrounds, recruitment policies and strategies include employment of teachers from diverse origins.

All teachers and other education support personnel have the right to decent work according to internationally recognised standards.

Research evidence from around the world echoes that learning first in one's mother language leads to better outcomes in the future – for individuals, cultures, and nations. This indicator examines whether provisions in the national laws or policies exist to ensure equal access to education for children belonging to migrants, refugees, asylum seekers or any non-citizens, including provisions for the necessary equipment and support they need to access the learning and learning materials in their mother tongue.

This indicator assesses whether the State has adopted laws and/or policies to guarantee the right to education of girls and women, including the provision of the necessary equipment and support to enable female students to attend school, including ECCE centres, without any discrimination.