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Transforming Childcare and Listening to Families: Policy in Wales and Beyond
Author(s): Wendy Ball (Author)
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication Date: 15 Jan. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 0708325513
- ISBN-13: 9780708325513
Book Description
This book draws on original research to consider the connections between childcare, family lives and social policy. The research, located in Wales in the period following devolution, concerns the capacity of policy to enhance family well-being. In interviews with mothers and fathers of young children, their day-to-day childcare arrangements are explored through the themes of gender, social networks, material circumstances and neighbourhood resources. This material provides a basis for an assessment of policy through interviews with policy-makers. The book identifies a significant gap between what matters to parents and what is currently being offered in policy and service provision
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About the Author
Wendy Ball is honorary research fellow in the Centre for Children and Young People s Health and Well-Being at Swansea University.
