State of the Young Child in India

Mobile Creches (MC) is a leading organisation for Early Childhood Development (ECD) in India. Headquartered in New Delhi, it works at the grassroots level for young children under 6 years across the country, with a focus on the most vulnerable - in particular children of migrant families and slum dwellers. It has also developed appropriate training resources to enable a cadre of early childhood care workers across government and non-government settings. As a knowledge organisation, MC presents this Report, which draws upon its decades of working with young children and their families and its engagement with local communities, businesses, practitioners, advocates and policymakers.

1. The young child in India 2. Advancing physical well-being 3. Promoting early childhood learning 4. Prioritising the disadvantaged child 5. Childcare and the childcare worker 6. Fiscal allocations and expenditure for child development 7. The way forward