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Really pleased to be attending @SungHeeLee1002s webinar this morning exploring Work-Family Balance Policies and womens reproduction in East Asia and Europe, reporting on a The British Academy funded study SPA Family Policy Group

Fascinating discussion by Melanie Channon on family policy attempts to increase fertility in the UK. Lack of affordable childcare absolutely key. Shocking figures! SPA Family Policy Group

Bernice Huang outlines some policies that are more likely to address lower fertility rates than a singular focus on increasing flexibility in work and childcare alone SPA Family Policy Group Sung-Hee Lee

Mauro Migliavacca outlining the impact of the pandemic on fertility rates in Italy, which has one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe) and asks whether the pandemic weakened working prospects for women SPA Family Policy Group

Following and retweeting from this event today on work-family balance policies with international case studies

Manuela Naldini outlines features of the Italian work/family system. Italy not only has low fertility rates but also low womens employment: or dual employment and demographic crises SPA Family Policy Group result of intergen solidarity, gendered labour & demand & welfare arrangements

Manuela Naldini demonstrating the complexity of family policy and the need to consider how different policies interact and intersect. She argues for a package of policies: work-family reconciliation, affordable childcare, employment and housing policies and more SPA Family Policy Group

Jaesung Kim now sharing insights on work-family policy and fertility rates in South Korea. Fertility rates also declining there and are much less than Italy, the lowest in Europe. SPA Family Policy Group

Jaesung Kim notes the challenges; It will take time to reverse the low fertility rate trend; S Korea often copies other countries, work-family policies often concentrate on standard employment, inflexible labour market, limited attention to fathers & caregiving SPA Family Policy Group

Fen-Ling Chen is now discussing low fertility policy in Taiwan and declining fertility rates SPA Family Policy Group

Why have fertility policies failed in Taiwan? women are often the object rather subject of policies, cash transfer policies don’t solve the caregiving load on women because of existing gender inequalities SPA Family Policy Group

Sung-Hee Lee provides an overview of the The British Academy study and its comparative approach to addressing the question of whether work-family policies are sustaining women’s reproduction. SPA Family Policy Group

Ruby Chau follows Sung-Hee Lee in describing the social investment approach, which supports women to combine work-family responsibilities through: effective leave schemes, protections of pregnant women, affordable childcare and flexible work SPA Family Policy Group

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"We have to make this Parliament the one where kinship care is hardwired into the child welfare system" Our Chair Melanie Onn MP writes in this week's edition of The House magazine. Available to read on PoliticsHome soon 👀

👏👏👏Huge thanks to our speakers, who led our international online workshop even more successfully earlier today! @workfamilybalance @fertility rate The British Academy SPA Family Policy Group University of Derby @UniversityofNottingham Catalonia International News Taiwan University @Research collaboration

🙌📚We hosted a great workshop with the support of The British Academy and the expert organisation of Sung-Hee Lee and Ruby Chau ! Way to go, comparative social policy research ✌️ NTU Taiwan University of Derby

Read all about why we established the Family Policy Group for the Social Policy Association

Deadline for abstracts is this Friday!