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28 Critical Soc. Pol'y 5 (2008)

handle is hein.journals/critsplcy28 and id is 1 raw text is: O CAROL VINCENT, ANNETTE BRAUN& STEPHEN J. BALL Institute of Education, University of London, UK Childcare, choice and social class: Caring for young children in the UK Abstract This paper draws on the results of two qualitative research projects examining parental engagements with the childcare market in the UK. Both projects are located in the same two London localities. One project focuses on professional middle class parents, and the other on working class families, and we discuss the key importance of social class in shaping parents' differential engagement with the childcare market, and their understandings of the role childcare plays in their children's lives. We identify and discuss the different 'circuits' of care available to and used by families living physically close to each other, but in social class terms living in different worlds. We also consider parents' relation- ships with carers, and their social networks. We conclude that, in order to fully understand childcare policies and practices and families' experi- ences of care, an analysis which encompasses social class and the work- ings of the childcare market is needed. Key words: capitals, family, middle class, parenting, working class Introduction But there is one additional reform that has the potential to transform opportunity for every child and be a force for renewal in every commu- nity, and on which the Government wishes to make further progress today. While the nineteenth century was distinguished by the introduc- tion of primary education for all and the twentieth century by the intro- duction of secondary education for all, so the early part of the twenty first century should be marked by the introduction of pre-school provision for the under fives and childcare available to all. (Speech by Gordon Brown, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Statement to the House of Commons, Spending Review, July 2004) @ Critical Social Policy Ltd 2008 0261-018394 Vol. 28(1): 5-26; 085505 SAGE PUBLICATIONS, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Singapore, 10.1177/0261018307085505 5

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