ABSTRACT
In this chapter we discuss and illustrate the framing of families’ childcare choices within aspects of national social policy, setting national and local patterns of possibility and constraint within a broad political, economic and social context.While we acknowledge the enormous progress made in childcare provision over the past ten years we identify a number of problems and omissions within the current policy approach.The chapter concludes with data on the local London markets as experienced by the respondents in our study.
