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Quality childcare: do parents choose it?

Anne B. Smith and Shanee J. Barraclough
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.

DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.18296/ecf.0275
Journal issue: 
Early Childhood Folio 3 (1997)

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