Christine Skinner

There has been a long-standing interest in the barriers to paid employment presented by inadequate and costly childcare services. Yet, little research has been done to explore how families manage to coordinate childcare services and whether this could also act as a barrier to employment. Drawing on detailed interviews with mothers, this study explores how parents manage to coordinate the childcare and educational needs of all children in the family with their working arrangements. Uniquely, it adopts a family unit perspective to consider how these needs are managed. Christine Skinner is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of York. She has considerable research experience relating to parenting and family policy matters, including childcare provision, family support services, child contact centres, child support obligations and the operation of the Child Support Agency.

Coordinating Childcare, Education and Work

Running Around in Circles

Julie Williams

Jonathan Bradshaw

Carol Stimson

Much has been written and debated on lone mothers. However little has been discussed about non-resident fathers. Absent Fathers is part of a growing literature on men and masculinities and takes this debate further. Drawn from one of the best social policy units in the UK and results from the current ESRC Programme on Population and Household Change, it will provide a text for undergraduates in social policy and should also be important for professionals concerned with family breakdown and child support.

Christine Skinner

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