Childcare in the Netherlands: Lessons in Privatisation

Autor/inn/en	Akgunduz, Yusuf Emre; Plantenga, Janneke
Titel	Childcare in the Netherlands: Lessons in Privatisation
Quelle	In: European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 22 (2014) 3, S.379-385 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1350-293X
DOI	10.1080/1350293X.2014.912900
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Privatization; Child Care; Educational Policy; Educational Change; Educational Quality; Access to Education; Institutional Characteristics; Educational Supply; Cost Effectiveness; Expenditures; Delivery Systems; Change Strategies; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Bildungsangebot; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Ausgaben; Auslieferung; Lösungsstrategie; Niederlande
Abstract	In 2005 the Child Care Act was introduced in the Netherlands. The explicit objective of the childcare reform has been to stimulate the operation of market forces so that childcare services are provided in an efficient way. The change towards a demand-driven financing system implies that there is no longer public provision of childcare services in the Netherlands. The emerging picture shows that the availability and use of childcare clearly increased since 2005. Due to the focus on working parents there is still inequality in childcare use by family type, yet this inequality does not seem to translate into unequal use of high quality childcare services by different socio-economic groups. Quality has been on a downward trend since process quality information was first collected in 1995. Yet, it seems likely that this negative trend is not the result of privatisation, but rather the rapid expansion in supply. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10