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Recruitment and retention, in addition to an upskilling of the workforce, and whether certain grades are entry or exit requirements, is crucial to the roll-out and success of the free 30-hour childcare offer.

A Fair Fee is Critical to Free Childcare Expansion

A Fair Fee is Critical to Free Childcare Expansion

‘Baffling’ DfE Report Raises Fears over Free Childcare Expansion

A Department for Education review has been unable to quantify the costs of providing childcare, prompting concerns from the early years sector that the planned expansion of the free entitlement will be underfunded

Initiatives boost childcare take-up

A year since the reach of free childcare was doubled for two-year-olds, local areas are ensuring families benefit

Specialists key to childcare offer

Educational psychology services are vital to ensure the free childcare expansion succeeds, says Kate Fallon

‘More investment in skills is needed to boost quality’

In the wake of the Government's commitment to expand free childcare, PACEY is calling for a renewed focus on quality. It would like to see a workforce strategy which provides more scope for training and CPD.

Welcome back Sam

Practical Pre-SchoolVol. 2015, No. 173 In This IssueWelcome back SamKaren FauxKaren FauxSearch for more papers by this authorKaren FauxPublished Online:21 May 2015https://doi.org/10.12968/prps.2015.173.3AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 2 June 2015Volume 2015Issue 173ISSN (print): 1366-610XISSN (online): 2052-4587 Metrics History Published online 21 May 2015 Published in print 2 June 2015 Information© MA Education LimitedPDF download

Aiming high for the sector

Can the new government deliver 30 hours of free childcare a week? And will it honour its commitment to review early years funding, and ensure that the rates reflect the true cost of delivering free places?

The Analysis of Financial Contribution Issues Relating to Childcare Policy from a Gender perspective - Focusing on the Free Childcare Services -

우리나라는 2012년 영아무상보육을 도입하고, 2013년 유아무상보육·교육(누리과정)을 도입하여 우리나라는 보편적 무상보육제도를 갖게 되었다. 그런데 무상보육이 정치적 결정에 의해 준비 없이 도입됨으로써 재정 분담을 둘러싼 논쟁이 일어났다. 영아무상보육의 재정분담을 둘러싸고 중앙정부와 지방정부가 대립하고, 유아무상보육·교육(누리과정)의 재정 분담을 둘러싸고 중앙정부와 지방교육청의 갈등이 일어나면서, 매년 보육예산이 제대로 편성되지 못하는 대란을 겪고 있다. 여성의 일·가정 양립을 효과적으로 지원하기 위해서는 무상보육도 중요하지만, 국공립보육시설 등 공적 인프라에서 양질의 보육서비스를 비용에 대한 부담 없이 이용할 수 있도록 하는 것이 중요하다. 성인지적 관점에서 보았을 때, 전면적 무상보육 시행과 재정 분담 논란 과정에서 젠더에 대한 고려가 부족하고, 보육의 정체성과 돌봄에 대한 국가책임이 약화되고, 양질의 공공보육 기반을 확충할 기회를 갖기 어렵게 되는 등의 문제가 있음을 분석하였다.

Promoting integration of immigrants: Effects of free child care on child enrollment and parental employment

Proficiency in the language spoken by the majority population may be crucial for the cognitive development of children from immigrant families. High-quality child care is believed to promote such language skills, and it is thus of concern that children from immigrant families are underrepresented in formal child care across OECD countries. How can we increase their participation, and can such participation improve family integration? We study an intervention in some districts of Oslo where children aged four and five were eligible for 20h of free childcare weekly. Taking advantage of the intervention being available in some city districts and not in others, we estimate the effect of the intervention on the enrollment of children and on their parents' employment and education, using outcomes measured for the same family before and after the child's age of eligibility. We find that the intervention increased the participation for children from immigrant families by 15%. However, we do not find support for effects on parental employment or education. The performance in tests at school entry (age six) for children from immigrant families in city districts with free child care is better than that of similar children in comparison districts. Overall, our results suggest that subsidizing center based child care can improve the cognitive development of children from immigrant families.

London struggles to deliver free childcare

Economic and workforce factors are making it harder for councils to deliver sufficient childcare places for all eligible two-year-olds

Child Care and Labour Market Participation in France: Do Monetary Incentives Matter?

This paper presents a model of the child care arrangements and labour supply of mothers with young children (under three). We use French data to estimate simultaneously mothers' labour force participation and type of child care chosen. The independent variables include estimated child care costs and mother's potential incomes obtained by simulating the benefits and taxes associated with different participation choices (working full-time, part-time or out of the labour market). Availability of free child care (from family and relatives) is also taken into account. We show that monetary incentives do play a role. Child care costs have a direct effect on mothers'

Childcare providers call for review of free entitlement funding model

Latest research shows a 20 per cent funding gap between the cost of delivering free childcare and the amount paid to providers, with experts warning it could jeopardise the government programme if not addressed

Councils fall short in provision of childcare places for two-year-olds

CYP Now investigation reveals that more than half of local authorities will have a shortfall of available places when the government's free childcare scheme for disadvantaged two-year-olds expands on 1 September

Free childcare scheme needs more investment

Free childcare scheme needs more investment

북한의 보육 정책 및 현황

In order to resolve the decline in population due to low birthrates, the South Korean government is expanding its free child care policies with an increased budget. In anticipating the effects and problems of our system, it will be worthy of attention to refer to the child care systems of other countries. In this paper, we reviewed the past and present policies and the current situation of the child care system in North Korea. North Korea started its free child care system earlier than that of South Korea, for the purpose of utilizing the women's labor force and rearing children to be revolutionary men of Juche type (Kimilsungism), in order to construct a communistic society. 'Child Care Education Law', which is the legal foundation of the child care system, regulates institutions for nursery schools and kindergarten and informs people that the country is responsible for support of child care. Despite their interest and progress in both quantity and quality in the child care system until the 1980s, the free child care system was partially disrupted, and discrepancies between ideology and actual situation were revealed due to economic difficulties from the 1990s. Because people's survival and physical health have been threatened, it is barely possible to find any study investigating the effect of institutional child care from early childhood and the instillation of unique ideology by group education from the preschool period on mental health.

Promotion key to free childcare

Some councils must do more to reach out to parents of two-year-olds eligible for free childcare

Free childcare for all?

Practical Pre-SchoolVol. 2014, No. 157 In This IssueFree childcare for all?Joanna SilmanJoanna SilmanSearch for more papers by this authorJoanna SilmanPublished Online:18 Feb 2014https://doi.org/10.12968/prps.2014.1.157.3AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 1 February 2014Volume 2014Issue 157ISSN (print): 1366-610XISSN (online): 2052-4587 Metrics History Published online 18 February 2014 Published in print 1 February 2014 Information© MA Education LimitedPDF download

Free childcare funding challenge

Free childcare for two-year-olds is to be backed by £760m. But is it enough to overcome funding issues, asks Nigel Keohane

Children in care

The final shape of the Children and Families Bill, introduction of the 26-week care proceedings target, expansion of free childcare and school meals, and doing more with less in the face of further public sector funding cuts – these are just some of the issues professionals and services will grapple with over the coming year. With the election just around the corner, CYP Now's 2014 Report invites sector leaders to pinpoint the challenges that lie ahead