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Childcare Markets: Can They Deliver an Equitable Service?
Contributor(s): Lloyd, Eva (Editor), Penn, Helen (Editor)
ISBN: 1847429335     ISBN-13: 9781847429339
Publisher: Policy Press
OUR PRICE:   $142.45  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Social Work
- Social Science | Children's Studies
Dewey: 362.712
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.10 lbs) 264 pages
 
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The viability, quality and sustainability of publicly supported early childhood education and care services is a lively issue in many countries, especially since the rights of the child imply equal access to provision for all young children. But equitable provision within childcare markets is highly problematic, as parents pay for what they can afford and parental income inequalities persist or widen. This highly topical book presents recent, significant research from eight nations where childcare markets are the norm. It also includes research about 'raw' and 'emerging' childcare markets operating with a minimum of government intervention, mostly in low income countries or post transition economies. Childcare markets compares these childcare marketisation and regulatory processes across the political and economic systems in which they are embedded. Contributions from economists, childcare policy specialists and educationalists address the question of what constraints need to be in place if childcare markets are to deliver an equitable service.

Contributor Bio(s): Lloyd, Eva: - Eva Lloyd is a reader in early childhood at the University of East London and codirector of the International Centre for the Study of Mixed Economy of Childcare (ICMEC). She is the author or editor of, or contributor to, several books, including Poverty and social exclusion in Britain, also published by the Policy Press.Penn, Helen: -

Helen Penn is professor of early childhood at the University of East London and also codirector of the ICMEC. She is the author of several books, most recently, Quality in Services to Young Children.