The aim of this contribution to the debates section is to raise some research and policy questions about childcare which has become a key policy issue for the British Government. Childcare currently is a central plank of both the economic efficiency and the social exclusion agenda, as...

One of the key geographical organizing concepts is that of scale. In the last few years, there has been an interesting debate about the nature of scale and its relational character, constructed through and reinforcing social relations of power. In this paper, I suggest that the rapid growth of a...