BAck to School Information on Children is a tool developed by ILP for Department of Labour, Government of Karnataka in partnership with UNICEF to provide a comprehensive repository, monitoring and tracking of every child brought to school through various initiatives.

The Need

Regular monitoring of children’s attendance and performance in bridge school and after mainstreaming becomes crucial to prevent children dropping and rejoining the labour stream. The need was hence felt for an automated tool which ensures

• Standardization of data collected.
• A Centralized data repository
• Analysis of data collected to sharpen interventions.
• Ability to check where the child is.

Advantage of BASIC

• Quick visibility of the latest information of a child.
• Tracking of the children and monitoring service delivery at each bridge centre at any frequency:
  • Health checkup
  • Vocational courses
  • Linkages with Government Schemes
  • Stipend/ scholarship
  • The current status of the child in the program.
• Search by name of the child or by Child Id.
• Tracing the duplicate entry of the child information in a region or administrative block.
• Tracing dropout from the bridge centers mainstream school with reasons on why they have dropped out.
• Monitoring of learning out comes of the children at the bridge centers and mainstream school
• Exporting of summary data to state an central level data bases.

Who can use BASIC?

• NCLP or SCLP District Office Personnel
• NGO program Co-ordinator of Bridge Centre.
• Education Department for the back to school programs

Data Flow in BASIC

Step 1: Trained staff in the bridge centre enter details on prescribed and printed child cards and send the cards to the Project Office.

Step 2:Child cards scrutinized and cards with errors or incomplete cards returned to the bridge centre for correction or completion.

Step3. Random verification of data by field officers.

Step4: Child cards once again returned to the bridge centre for updates.

Step 5. Data exported to Central database

How can this data be used?

• To track an individual child
• To understand the case of each child can derive a complete case study
• To monitor the progress at the project or region level.
• To analyze the data for planning and interventions
• To generate periodic reports.

Instrument for collecting data: The BASIC Child Card

Child Profile

• Name and address, parent’s name, Occupation and income, Age/date of birth, work status and employer details, past schooling information,

• Stipend data

• Vocational attendance

• Academic performance at the bridge centre

• Government Scheme linkages

• Health records

• Mainstreaming and one year follow up details