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Download or read book Childcare markets written by Lloyd, Eva and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Childcare markets written by Eva Lloyd and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The viability, quality, and sustainability of early childhood education and services is a lively issue in many countries, especially as fair access to quality programs is beset by increasing gaps in family income. Drawing on research from eight countries where child care is deployed via open markets—including the United States and Canada—the editors present comparisons of child-care services and the regulatory processes that guide them across a wide political and economic spectrum. Including contributions from economists, policy specialists, and educators, this book addresses serious questions as to what constraints need to be in place if child-care providers are to deliver equitable service.
Download or read book Making Care Work written by Lynet Uttal and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As ever more women work outside the home, ever more families employ childcare workers. In the absence of government regulations or social models that clearly define the childcare provider's role, mothers worry about the quality of care their children are getting. By connecting the personal level of mothers' daily experiences to the larger political, economic, and ideological context of childcare, Lynet Uttal describes and explains how mothers rely on their relationship with the providers to monitor and influence the quality of care their children receive. Whereas other studies have emphasized how mothers undervalue and exploit providers, this book paints a more nuanced picture, arguing that the ties between adults who share in the care of children creates neither heroes nor victims. This ethnography reveals that mothers are often reluctant to discuss their concerns with their childcare providers. Uttal shows how mothers walk a fine line between wanting to believe in the quality of care they have chosen, and the fact that they might have made a mistake. Catalyzed by their worries about the quality of care, mothers develop complex relationships with the women--and most are women--who look after their children.
Book Synopsis Economics of Child Care by : David M. Blau
Download or read book Economics of Child Care written by David M. Blau and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1991-09-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Blau has chosen seven economists to write chapters that review the emerging economic literature on the supply of child care, parental demand for care, child care cost and quality, and to discuss the implications of these analyses for public policy. The book succeeds in presenting that research in understandable terms to policy makers and serves economists as a useful review of the child care literature....provides an excellent case study of the value of economic analysis of public policy issues." —Arleen Leibowitz, Journal of Economic Literature "There is no doubt this is a timely book....The authors of this volume have succeeded in presenting the economic material in a nontechnical manner that makes this book an excellent introduction to the role of economics in public policy analysis, and specifically child care policy....the most comprehensive introduction currently available." —Cori Rattelman, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Book Synopsis 207 WAYS To Market Your Childcare Business by : Nick Williams
Download or read book 207 WAYS To Market Your Childcare Business written by Nick Williams and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Nick shares 207 strategies to not only transform the number of enquiries you get into your business and convert them into an enrollment but then how to nurture your relationship with the customer, so they stay with you and refer their friends and family. He refers to this as childcare relationship marketing.
Download or read book Childcare Markets written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text brings together recent policy relevant research from seven nations operating childcare markets, allowing comparisons between privatisation and marketisation processes of early childcare education and care services.
Book Synopsis Cashing in on Education by : Mercedes Mateo Díaz
Download or read book Cashing in on Education written by Mercedes Mateo Díaz and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investments in education across countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have transformed the lives of millions of girls and the prospects of their families and societies. Unleashing the full economic potential of women is nevertheless still a curtailed issue in the region: just about half of women are unable to participate in paid work. The majority of the population out of the labor market is women between the ages of 24 and 45. This is the largest share of the available pool of unused human capital countries have, and where mothers of young children are concentrated. This book argues that more and better childcare constitutes a fundamental policy option to improve female outcomes in the labor market, but countries need to pay particular attention to the design and features of such services. First-rate educational programs will be useless if children are not enrolled or do not attend formal education centers. A large program expansion will be wasted if parents cannot enroll their children because they are unable to reach the center, don’t trust its quality, if the program is too expensive, or if work and care schedules are not compatible. Through an integrated framework applied to each country and an overview of the existing evidence, this book addresses the why and what questions about policy relevant instruments to achieve female labor participation. Parts I and II of the book lay out the motivation for Latin-American and Caribbean countries to act depicting their current situation both in terms of women’s labor participation and the use and provision of childcare services. Moreover, this book tackles the how question contributing to the incipient evidence about factors affecting the take-up of programs and demand for childcare services and other informal care arrangements. Part III of the book explores how to improve services and implement more and better formal, center-based care arrangements for young children. It looks at international benchmarks, discusses different experiences and proposes specific actions to solve potential inequalities in access to childcare.
Book Synopsis 100 Ideas to Market Your Childcare Business by : Gallagher Taffy Gallagher
Download or read book 100 Ideas to Market Your Childcare Business written by Gallagher Taffy Gallagher and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 Ideas You Don't Have to Think Up... Between staff calling in sick and balancing the bank account, you don't have time to sit around dreaming up new ideas to promote your program and increase enrollment. In this follow-up publication to Program Full - Your Guide to Successful Childcare Marketing, the author takes the work out of brainstorming by offering a selection of ideas that inspire owners of preschools and early learning centers to create their own marketing campaigns. This book features 100 ideas that are easy for administrators of early learning programs and childcare centers to incorporate into their current marketing activities. Each of the 100 ideas in this book was selected to make marketing a childcare center or preschool a little bit easier. The ideas range from simple to complex, and vary in budget and knowledge requirements, making it a useful reference for both family childcare and center-based programs to customize them to fit unique situations. Whether you own a small in-home childcare business, administer several child care programs for a large corporation, or are the director at a single location, you'll certainly reference this book many times during your marketing planning. Celebrate your anniversary (Idea #3) Work with local employers (Idea #68) Call them by name (Idea #14) Telephone etiquette (Idea #62) Fundraiser promotion (Idea #32) Catch the eyes of passersby (Idea #94)
Book Synopsis Childcare, Choice and Class Practices by : Carol Vincent
Download or read book Childcare, Choice and Class Practices written by Carol Vincent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childcare is a topic that is frequently in the media spotlight and continues to spark heated debate in the UK and around the world. This book presents an in-depth study of childcare policy and practice, examining middle class parents’ choice of childcare within the wider contexts of social class and class fractions, social reproduction, gendered responsibilities and conceptions of ‘good’ parenting. Drawing on the results of a qualitative empirical study of two groups of middle class parents living in two London localities, this book: takes into account key theoretical frameworks in childcare policy, setting them in broader social, political and economic contexts considers the development of the UK government’s childcare strategy from its birth in 1998 to the present day highlights the critical debates surrounding middle class families and their choice of childcare explores parents’ experiences of childcare and their relationships with carers. This important study comes to a number of thought-provoking conclusions and offers valuable insights into a complex subject. It is essential reading for all those working in or studying early years provision and policy as well as students of sociology, class, gender and work.
Book Synopsis What We Know about Childcare by : Alison Clarke-Stewart
Download or read book What We Know about Childcare written by Alison Clarke-Stewart and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ultimately, it's parents who matter most, what happens at home makes the difference in how children develop.
Book Synopsis Child Care Today by : Penelope Leach
Download or read book Child Care Today written by Penelope Leach and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the universally admired author of the bestselling classic Your Baby and Child: “a masterful work [that could] revolutionize the way America cares for its young children and bring about a radical improvement in the lives of children and their parents” (The Boston Globe). Who is caring for today’s children? How well are they succeeding? What does care cost, and who is paying for it? Leach answers these and other urgent questions with facts and figures gathered from the most current research, brought to life by the voices of parents, including those involved in her own five-year study. She highlights the urgent need in America today for measures to raise the quality of child care and to make the best care we can provide available to all families, just as it is in most other developed nations. Setting out clearly and candidly what is known about every aspect of child care—including the often hidden feelings and fears of parents—Leach presents a critical case for change.
Download or read book Dollars & Sense written by Janet Bush and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable resource is a self-study curriculum designed for small child care businesses. It offers over 50 best practices developed by industry innovators to raise the level of professionalism in this important industry. This invaluable resources covers the fundamentals of sound business practices specifically as they relate to the child care industry. Child care providers learn to design effective business policies, customize contracts, set prices, keep financial and legal records, and market their business. This comprehensive guide offers the child care provider everything they need to run a successful business, including reproducible forms, contracts, ledgers and income statements.
Book Synopsis Complete Baby & Child Care by : Miriam Stoppard
Download or read book Complete Baby & Child Care written by Miriam Stoppard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative but easily accessible, Complete Baby and Childcare is an invaluable source of information for all parents of infants, toddlers, and preschool kids. Dr. Miriam Stoppard takes the mystery out of child-rearing in this guideto the first five years of a child’s life. The book provides information on topics as diverse as potty training and sleeping patterns to childhood phobias and developmental issues. This new edition has not only been given a completelynew look with stunning new photography, but it has also been updated and rewritten with 20–25 percent new material. New information will cover the latest developments in baby and childcare, such as using sign language to communicate with your baby and progressive child-centered parenting tactics.
Book Synopsis Making Sense of Education in Post-Handover Hong Kong by : Thomas Kwan-Choi Tse
Download or read book Making Sense of Education in Post-Handover Hong Kong written by Thomas Kwan-Choi Tse and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1997 when Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, a string of education reforms have been introduced to improve the quality of education and maintain Hong Kong’s economic competitiveness in the age of globalization. This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of major issues and challenges faced by the education system, ranging from pre-school to higher education. It analyses the prospects for educational development in Hong Kong. It further addresses how the Hong Kong government has responded to the perceived challenges of the external environment and internal forces and explains the rationales for the actions taken. Not only does it review how the reform initiative challenges have been dealt with, it also reviews how effective these initiatives are and its implications on future directions.
Book Synopsis Family Child Care Marketing Guide, Second Edition by : Tom Copeland
Download or read book Family Child Care Marketing Guide, Second Edition written by Tom Copeland and published by Redleaf Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with information to effectively market a family child care program and maximize enrollment and income, Family Child Care Marketing Guide provides dozens of marketing tips and inexpensive ideas. This second edition includes two new chapters detailing the use of technology and social media as marketing tools.
Download or read book Childcare Markets written by Helen Penn and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It describes the neo-liberal view of the market, in which the role of the state is regarded as minimal, and taxation and regulation are viewed mainly as controversial impositions on business. [...] In this view, the state is the best guarantor that childcare services will be reliable and in particular, will meet the needs of the most vulnerable alongside those of the strongest, each benefiting from each other's participation in the service (Sandel, 2009). [...] For example, researchers at NEF undertook an analysis of the social value of the contribution of childcare workers in the UK to the economy and concluded that they contributed more to the economy than accountants and bankers! (New Economics Foundation, 2009). [...] Lanchester (2010) suggests that for nearly half a century, after the end of the Second World War, most developed economies were inspired by the idea of a just, fair and equitable society, in which the state played a major role in redistributing wealth through tax and benefits, and in providing universal services for its citizens. [...] Any capital investment is dependent on local property prices, and the investment in a building is covered by the potential sale value of the property if the childcare ceases to be profitable.
Book Synopsis Australian Public Policy by : Miller, Chris
Download or read book Australian Public Policy written by Miller, Chris and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when neoliberal and conservative politics are again in the ascendency and social democracy is waning, Australian public policy re-engages with the values and goals of progressive public policy in Australia and the difficulties faced in re-affirming them. It brings together leading authors to explore economic, environmental, social, cultural, political and indigenous issues. It examines trends and current policy directions and outlines progressive alternatives that challenge and extend current thinking. While focused on Australia, the contributors offer valuable insights for people in other countries committed to social justice and those engaged in the ongoing contest between neo-liberalism and social democracy. This is essential reading for policy practitioners, researchers and students as well those with an interest in the future of public policy.
