This ground-breaking volume provides an evidence and rights-based approach to monitoring the well-being of children and adolescents in South Africa. Drawing on international precedents, and subject to extensive peer review and revision, experts in various fields have compiled an holistic set of child well-being indicators that will enhance the country's capacity to monitor the status of children. Taking ideological cues from the child-rights focus of the South African Constitution, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of Children, the authors make it clear that it is not just the state of children that is important to measure, but also the contexts within which children grow and develop. Thus the recommended indicators measure both the service environment and the children's developmental contexts.