Click here for care: how the platform economy can impede high-quality childcare

Yet the proportion of the platforms to the global financial crash and its population performing platform work involving aftermath.8 A decade or more of stagnant wages, the provision of household services rose from 3.2% increasing housing costs, cuts to public services, in 2016 to 6.5% in 2019 to 7.9% in 2021.16 This is and cuts to working-age benefits meant that there broadly comparable to driving. [...] the childcare or (b) if another person is willing to do so, that in the circumstances it is appropriate for the England is exceptional within Europe in that it local authority to provide the childcare”.28 has deliberately shaped the childcare market to promote the provision of services by for-profit Meanwhile, the regulatory framework within which companies. [...] Accordingly, the potential for the platform to scale up, both in what the childcare system needs are providers that New York and other cities across the country, and are accountable to those who work in and use the to reach other industries like childcare, where co- services. [...] In a parent-led co-operative, parents are expected 4.1.1 Supply-side funding and regulation to contribute time and skills to the management At the very least, the state should be driving a and administration of the childcare setting, as well much harder regulatory bargain with providers as be involved directly in the classroom, working to ensure that childcare providers deliver quality alongside p. [...] As part of their expanding the regulatory framework, and Fair Work Action Plan, the Scottish government increasing the collective power and rights of the and the Scottish Trades Union Council (STUC) workforce would curb a number of the worst have developed a forum in Early Learning and impacts of private childcare provision, including Childcare to explore sectoral bargaining that private childcare.