Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents new empirical research about in-home child care in Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada, three countries where governments are pursuing new ways to support the recruitment of in-home childcare workers through funding, regulation and migration.
Trade Review"This book successfully highlights how policy needs to integrate homecarers to enable women to be further integrated into the labour market whilst children access quality care." Dr Naomi Finch, University of York
"The growing interest in `in-home care’ by parents, governments and early childhood practitioners make this book a timely and essential read for social policy scholars and public policy professionals." Dr Elizabeth Hill, University of Sydney
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part One: Conceptual and historical analysis of in-home childcare; Restructuring care – Concepts and classifications; Restructuring care – Comparative policy developments; Policy structures in Australia, the UK and Canada; Part Two: Policy intersections and inequalities; Rhetoric and rationales for in-home childcare; Intersecting inequalities; Cultures of in-home childcare; Conclusion.
