Cash-for-Childcare

Edited by Jorma Sipilä, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Katja Repo, Tampere Centre for Childhood, Youth and Family Research, Tampere University and Tapio Rissanen, Research Fellow, Tampere University, Finland

• Contents:1. IntroductionJorma Sipilä, Katja Repo and Tapio Rissanen2. Cash vs Care: A Child and Family Policy IssueSheila B. Kamerman and Shirley Gatenio Gabel3. Cash-for-Childcare: Unnecessary Traditionalism or a Contemporary Necessity?Jorma Sipilä, Katja Repo, Tapio Rissanen and Niina Viitasalo4. Finnish Child Home Care Allowance – Users’ Perspectives and PerceptionsKatja Repo5. Cash-for-Childcare Schemes in Sweden: History, Political Contradictions and Recent DevelopmentsAnita Nyberg6. Cash-for-Care in Norway: Take-up, Impacts and Consequences for MothersMarit Rønsen and Ragni Hege Kitterød7. Rationalities of Cash-for-Childcare: The Nordic CaseMinna Rantalaiho8. The Paradox of Cash-for-Childcare: Are There Ways to Solve the Dilemma?Katja Repo, Jorma Sipilä, Tapio Rissanen and Niina ViitasaloIndex

‘This work is one of the first attempts to offer a theoretical discussion of and empirical evidence for a relatively new social policy: CFC. The collection provides an insightful review of the historical and socio-political rationale for these policies within the Nordic context, state-specific and comparative analyses, and offers promising strategies to overcome the noted challenges. . . this work is an excellent resource for those interested in CFC policies specifically and among scholars and students of social and family policy, gender and labour studies, and social care more generally.’