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Spheres of care in the UK
— separate and unequal | | Author(s) | Hilary Land |
| Journal title | Critical Social Policy, issue 70, vol 22, no 1, February 2002 |
| Pages | pp 13-32 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Day services ; Charges ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | Recent developments in the use of formal and informal day care following the introduction of a National Child Care Strategy in 1997 are analysed. It is argued that the Government's focus only on supporting formal care ignores the crucial contribution made by the informal sector. A small study of the daycare arrangements of parents who are mature students compares the informal and formal daycare "markets", and shows how the firm line which government policy draws between formal and informal care is based on an incomplete understanding of the meanings of "care" and "work". The use of cash payments in the informal sector can sustain, rather than damage, the willingness and ability to care: a choice does not have to be made between love and money. Rather, policies that support both are needed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020416233 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: NM: QEJ: TM2 |
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