Review

Childcare markets - can they deliver an equitable service?

Edited by Eva Lloyd and Helen Penn (The Policy Press, 56, ISBN 9781847429339)

A multi-disciplinary, international team of experts have come together to analyse market-based childcare around the world, and look at the inevitable problems associated with quality, sustainability and public support.

The authors provide a perspective on how childcare marketisation and regulatory processes compare across the political and economic systems in which they are embedded, and address the question of how childcare markets can deliver an equitable service.