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Labour's Policy on Money for Parents: Combining Care with Paid Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2008

Mary Campbell
Mary Campbell*
Affiliation:
Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science E-mail: m.i.campbell@lse.ac.uk
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Abstract

Since 1997, Labour has redistributed welfare spending to caregivers, especially parents. Two primary aims of this policy were getting more mothers into paid work and reducing child poverty. But the implications are more complicated than this. All households with children have gained, and especially those on low and middle incomes. But lone parents and mothers and fathers in couple households have each been affected differently. Defining what constitutes ‘money for care’ is a prerequisite for normative discussion on how the social costs of caregiving should be shared between and within households.

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Social Policy and Society , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 2008 , pp. 457 - 470
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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