Early Childhood Development Act B.E. 2562(2019).

The purpose of the Act is to ensure that early age children during their childhood receive the protection and care, well-rounded development, and education in a systematic, continuous, and equal way.
Early childhood development under this Act contains the following objectives: (1) enabling a mother to receive care during the stage of pregnancy to promote a child’s well-being and development. (2) ensuring the safety of early age children and the protection against any form of harassments. (3) promoting well- rounded development of early age children in terms of physical body, mind, discipline, emotion, society, and intelligence; etc.
Healthcare centers belonged to the government entities, local administrative organizations or private sectors with duties to provide public health to pregnant women and early age children shall provide healthcare services to all the mothers and children. These services range from family planning, reproductive health, prenatal care, parenting preparation, including immunity promotion, nutrition promotion, development promotion, and breastfeeding promotion at least for the first six months of life.