- 264 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Childcare Markets
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- About the contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Part One: Introduction
- 1. Childcare markets: an introduction
- 2. Childcare markets: do they work?
- 3. Future directions for a mature UK childcare market
- Part Two: Explorations in childcare markets
- 4. Local providers and loyal parents: competition and consumer choice in the Dutch childcare market
- 5. Tinkering with early childhood education and care: early education vouchers in Hong Kong
- 6. Markets and childcare provision in New Zealand: towards a fairer alternative
- 7. Publicly available and supported early education and care for all in Norway
- 8. Childcare markets in the US: supply and demand, quality and cost, and public policy
- 9. Canadian ECEC labour shortages: big, costly and solvable
- 10. Raw and emerging childcare markets
- Part Three: Ethics and principles
- 11. Need markets be the only show in town?
- 12. ABC Learning and Australian early education and care: a retrospective ethical audit of a radical experiment
- 13. Childcare markets and government intervention
- Index
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