Quality childcare: do parents choose it?

Abstract

A study of 100 childcare centres shows that many parents make passive choices of centres rather than actively choosing between alternatives. Parent choice is not currently a viable means of controlling quality and policy makers need to look at other mechanisms.

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Smith, A. B., & Barraclough, S. J. (1997). Quality childcare: do parents choose it? Early Childhood Folio, 3, 19–22. https://doi.org/10.18296/ecf.0275
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