Growing pains? Change in the New Zealand childcare market 2006–2016
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2017-04-01
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There has been a significant growth in childcare in New Zealand (NZ) since 2006. Shaped by debates around the marketisation of childcare, this paper will make some key observations about the NZ childcare market. I will argue that the landscape of childcare has changed in favour of a burgeoning private sector and consider the recent impetus for corporatisation. Finally, I will examine the discourse of parental ‘choice’ which pervades policy discussions around ECE in New Zealand and how this plays out in the face of an expanding private for-profit sector.
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childcare, marketisation, parent consumer, private sector
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NEW ZEALAND GEOGRAPHER, 2017, 73 (1), pp. 15 - 24