Day Care for Young Children in India: Issues and Prospects

This compendium of sixteen papers addresses the macro and micro issues concerning day care for young children in India. Analysing the socio-economic context of child care in the country, it discusses the developmental needs of children and the various agents, the parents, child care gives and state try to fulfil them. Further identifying the child care needs of women in urban, semi-urban and rural contexts, the contributors also deliberate on the effects of substitute care on children, child care quality, personnel training and advocacy, and quality parameters of day care programmes.