She is a child care worker in a kindergarten.

Number of crèches and nurseries and Mother and Child Homes

enterprises Number of children in crèches and nurseries and in Mother and Child Homes Kindergartens

Early childhood education.

Capacity of crèches and nurseries and Mother and Child Homes

Human rights education of young children should be anchored in everyday issues at home, in childcare centres, in early education programmes and other community settings with which young children can identify.

Human rights education in early childhood.

ICBF provides food supplements for children whose mothers have to be absent from the household to work and it also offers nursery services.

Mental and emotional development of children in kindergarten

His Government attached great importance to the education of children, particularly girls, and to child and maternal health care.

139. There are two kinds of leave for raising a small child.

(a) Health promotion during pregnancy and confinement, for infants and small children and health education at school.

Preschool education for the 0 3 age group

Situation on the Ground At present there are 5.7 million children not receiving early childhood education.

States parties should ensure that parents caregivers are provided adequate support and training to fulfil their responsibilities (art. 18) and that young children have access to quality early childhood education and care, and (where appropriate) specialist guidance therapies.

Governments are increasingly recognizing the importance of community based early childhood care and development.

387. The number of children living in homes for little children and in children apos s homes is decreasing.

(b) Adequately regulate the placement of children in institutions and ensure periodic reviews of placement, in light of article 25 of the Convention. It also recommends that the State party increase the support services and financial assistance for foster care families

These include setting up and maintaining kindergartens (crèches, nurseries, orphanages, etc.).

Parental and public responsibilities for early childhood education.

(b) Young children form strong emotional attachments to their parents or other caregivers, from whom they seek and require nurturance, care, guidance and protection, in ways that are respectful of their individuality and growing capacities

(a) Pre school education, comprising kindergartens for children aged from three to five, the last year of which shall be compulsory.

Several competitions catering for the athletic abilities of the young child are organized.

343. Kindergartens provide care, but also fulfil an educational function for children aged three to six.

Similarly, article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child5 calls for a reduction of infant and child mortality appropriate prenatal and post natal care for mothers and the development of preventive health care, guidance for parents and family planning education and services.

Care of children the large numbers of children in Panama make it urgently necessary that health, education and protection services be improved and made more accessible.

Total number of kindergartens

Homes for little children of no more than three years of age (transformed into children apos s homes on 1 January 1993)

In all these institutions, from kindergarten to the first degree level at the university education is given free of charge.

Early childhood provision in targeted schools for improved Katchi programs.

At the age of six they have the right to one year of kindergarten preparation.

In the educational sector, the free, compulsory and universal basic education policy ensured that primary education was widely accessible and free schooling had been extended to cover kindergarten beginning in the 2006 07 academic year.

Kindergarten begins in kindergarten.

Target 5 Increase involvement of disadvantaged young children in appropriate community or group child care

At present there are seven (7) public nurseries, five (5) home schools run by the Ministry of Public Health, sixteen (16) day care centres run by the National Council for Children, one (1) creche run by the Dominican Social Security Institute, and three thousand one hundred and ninety eight kindergartens operated by the Ministry of Education and Culture (SEEC).

Programme on protection of children in community kindergartens.

The UNICEF multisectoral approach to education, which combines education, with programmes to improve water and sanitation, child protection, early childhood care and nutrition, as appropriate, has enormous benefits for girls and women.

At the same time, research into the social and cultural dimensions of early childhood draws attention to the diverse ways in which early development is understood and enacted, including varying expectations of the young child and arrangements for his or her care and education.

The campaign was designed to achieve a direct and measurable impact on child survival and other UNICEF priorities, especially protection, education and early childhood development.

For example, traditionally, the education of the very young children was seen as the business of families, and you would have cases where women were seen as neglecting their family responsibilities when they sent their children to kindergarten.

167. The National Programme for Family Planning and maternal and child health care programmes.

Many countries and regions now provide comprehensive early education starting at 4 years old, which in some countries is integrated with childcare for working parents.

The lowest rates are found among the population with the highest level of education, with neonatal and infant rates of 7 and a child rate of 11, whereas for the population without education these rates are 16, 27 and 48 respectively.

Due emphasis must be given to maternal mortality reduction, sexual and reproductive health and newborn care, as well as to children over five years of age and adolescents.

However, few of the poverty reduction strategies give significant focus to child protection issues, and many place only limited emphasis on early childhood development.