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Children's rights : how to promote a rights based approach in residential child care [PDF]

, 2006
This paper promotes the use of children's rights in residential childcare. The 4 key principles of the UNCRC are used as tool to safeguard decision-making in Residential ChildCare.
Vrouwenfelder, Evelyn
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The 'childcare champion'? New Labour, social justice and the childcare market [PDF]

, 2005
Childcare as a policy issue has received unprecedented attention under New Labour, through various aspects of The National Childcare Strategy introduced in 1998.
Ball, Stephen, Vincent, Carol
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Bridging home, school and community to address educational inequality: Supporting educational trajectories through community bridge work

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the role of community stakeholders in supporting the educational trajectories of students experiencing socio‐economic disadvantage in the Irish context. Building on international and national policy debates, the study examines how community‐based organisations, statutory services and outreach initiatives work alongside ...
Aoife Joy Keogh, Deirdre McGillicuddy
wiley   +1 more source

Childcare needs as a barrier to healthcare among women in a safety-net health system

BMC Public Health
Background Childcare needs are an understudied social determinant of health. The effect of childcare needs on access to healthcare must be understood to inform health system interventions and policy reform.
Priyanka Gaur, Anisha P. Ganguly, Madyson Kuo, Robert Martin, Kristin S. Alvarez, Kavita P. Bhavan, Kimberly A. Kho   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determinants of childcare service demand for infants aged 0–3 among the childbearing population in China

Frontiers in Public Health
ObjectivesThis study aims to investigate the demand for childcare services for infants aged 0–3 years among the childbearing population in China and identify its key determinants.MethodsAn online survey was conducted in Suzhou, China in August 2024 using
Chun Yang, Chun Yang, Jian Zhou, Jian Zhou, Yan Liu, Yan Liu, Wenhui Shi, Wenhui Shi, Yan Cheng, Yan Cheng, Yuxin Cao, Yuxin Cao, Rui Xing, Rui Xing, Rui Xing, Rui Xing, Lin Cui, Lin Cui, Rugang Liu, Rugang Liu, Rugang Liu, Rugang Liu   +21 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Security Reform and Childcare Support [PDF]

This paper examines how social security reform and childcare support affect fertility and social welfare, based on a simple overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility.
Oshio, Takashi
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National evaluation of the neighbourhood nurseries: integrated report [PDF]

, 2007
Report description: The NNI was launched in 2001 to provide high quality childcare in the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods of England, to help parents into employment, reduce child poverty and boost children’s development.
Coxon, K., Dearden, L., La Valle, I., Mathers, S., Purdon, S., Shaw, J., Sibieta, L., Sigala, M., Smith, G., Smith, R., Smith, T., Sylva, K.   +11 more
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The effects of early years' childcare on child emotional and behavioural difficulties in lone and co-parent family situations [PDF]

, 2013
With targeted childcare initiatives and welfare-to-work programmes policy-makers have sought to address employment activation of lone mothers and negative outcomes for children in lone parent households.
ANTHONY GLENDINNING, Bradshaw, Conway, Cunningham-Burley, Finn, GITIT KADAR-SATAT, HANNAH ZAGEL, Haux, Kilkey, Lewis, Lewis, Lovibond, MYRTHE JACOBS, Plantenga, Rose, Sylva, Treanor   +16 more
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‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah, Leigh Jarvis, Ane Turner Johnson, Chidi Ezegwu, Priscillah Nsama, Austine Nakanga   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characteristics of home-based child care serving children aged 0 to 5 years in Canada, 2021 to 2022

Economic and Social Reports
Child care provided in home-based settings by non-relatives remains a prominent model of care in Canada. Home-based child care (sometimes called family child care) is provided in private residences where the provider lives and operates the service to ...
Thomas J. Charters, Leanne C. Findlay
doaj   +1 more source