TITLE:
Effects of a Change to Subject Subsidization of Supplementary Family Child Care on a Rural Region of Switzerland
AUTHORS:
Philippe Groux
KEYWORDS:
Childcare Vouchers, Rural Region, System Change, Subsidy Contribution, Exclusion
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.4,
April
18,
2022
ABSTRACT: Childcare
is one of the tools to stimulate the compatibility of work and family. In
Switzerland, childcare laws are a task of the 24 cantons, which leads to a broad variety of
childcare financing systems. The canton of Bern switched from a mixed form of
object and subject financing of supplementary family childcare through daycare
centers and in-home based child care to pure subject financing after positive
results in a pilot project in an urban setting. This study describes the
effects of the change in a rural region which differ significantly from the
effects in the city of Bern. Neither the expected increase in supply, the
shortened waiting times nor the higher costs for the municipality and the
canton have materialized.