Child care for all is a movement which aims to provide child care to all children who need it. This is an attempt to bring all the stakeholders together such as professionals, parents, vendors NGO and government bodies to discuss and intervene to create safe spaces of care for children. An innovative component is also to involve the most important piece of this work which are children themselves using creative methods. One aim of this movement is to create online resource centre which can be accessed by employers, vendors,  early childhood professionals, diversity experts, parents and early childhood practitioners. The birth of this movement has stemmed from the doctoral research in child care and the salient experiences the founder was part of. A strategy to intervene and provide solutions to every day care situations and propagate research in it is one of the goals of this movement.

About the Founder

Dr. Ridhi Sethi is presently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Development and Childhood Studies, Lady Irwin College, New Delhi. Her doctoral work is titled “Child Care Arrangements of Parents in the I.T. Sector. Dr Ridhi Sethi has around fifteen years of experience in the area of Child Development, Research, Early Childhood Care and Education and Work Life Consulting. Dr. Sethi specializes in the area of early childhood development, mental health and children with special needs. Dr. Sethi has participated in several projects in the area of Early Childhood and Education and has been instrumental in initiating developmentally appropriate programs in public schools. Dr Sethi is a needs assessment specialist and has shown expertise in assessing the needs of employees for child care and making recommendations for onsite site child care programs. Dr. Sethi has been involved with capacity building of ECCE professionals and has conducted several professional development workshops for ECCE trainers.