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Childcare, life chances and social justice
Gideon Calder 
Social Policy Review 30, Pages: 47 - 65
Swansea University Author:
Gideon Calder
Abstract
This article analyses how the 'life chances' agenda in UK social policy relates to questions about fair access to childcare, as a social justice issue. It provides an analysis of how the notion of 'life chance' has been invoked in recent UK government strategies and ministerial s...
| Published in: | Social Policy Review 30 |
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| ISBN: | 978-1447349990 |
| Published: |
Bristol
Policy Press
2018
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| Online Access: |
https://policypress.co.uk/social-policy-review-30 |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40245 |
| Abstract: |
This article analyses how the 'life chances' agenda in UK social policy relates to questions about fair access to childcare, as a social justice issue. It provides an analysis of how the notion of 'life chance' has been invoked in recent UK government strategies and ministerial speeches, a basic elaboration of how ‘fair life chances’ might be understood, and a consideration of the difficulties encountered in identifying viable measures of life chances. It then addresses the pivotal place of childcare in any coherent ‘life chances’ agenda, and the value of a child-focused analysis as part of its wider articulation. The chapter concludes with a proposal that we address childcare as a ‘relationship good’ – a uniquely valuable form of relationship, the distribution of which should be treated as a basic matter of social justice and of a viable approach to ‘life chances’ in policy terms. |
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| Keywords: |
life chances; childcare; social justice; children; parents |
| College: |
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
| Start Page: |
47 |
| End Page: |
65 |