Selected publications of Dr Bronwen Cohen, OBE

(2006) (with Lisa Harker) ‘Early childhood services : private commodity or public good?  In Children in Europe Issue 11 Managing the Mix : public and private sextors in early childhood services.

(2006) ‘Introduction and Overview’ in Making Space. Award-winning designs for young children Children in Scotland in association with Children in Europe, Architecture and Design Scotland, OECD, and the Scottish Executive, Edinburgh

(2005) (with J. McCormick) “Working for the future : re-imagining the children’s sector wortkforce’ in Children in Scotland,  Working for the future: re-imagining the children’s sector workforce’ Children in Scotland

(2005 ) ‘Policy context’ in (eds) R.A and A Glaister,  Inter-agency collaboration ~ Issues in Practice, Dunedin Press

(2005) Guest editor :  Making space : architecture and design for young children’ Children in Europe Issue 8

(2004) (with Moss, Petrie and Wallace)  A New Deal for Children? Re-forming education and care in England, Scotland and Sweden. Policy Press, Bristol.

(2003) ‘Scotland’s Children and the New Parliament” Children and Society Vol.17 pp236-246

2000 ‘Parental leave : research and policy issues ’ in Deven F and Moss P, Parental Leave in Europe : Progress or Pitfall?  CGBS Brussels)

(1999) ‘Children and the Scottish Parliament’, Scotland Forum, Issue No. 16, April 1999, The Stationery Office, Edinburgh

(1999) ‘Advancing early childhood care and education in the United Kingdom’, Interaction Childcare Magazine, Spring 1999, Toronto, Canada

(1998) ‘Raising the family:  Scotland’s children and the new parliament’  Scotland Forum, Issue No. 3, The Stationery Office, Edinburgh

(1998) ‘What do other countries do?’, Presentation for Ministerial Seminar, HM Government’s Cross-Departmental Review of Provision for Young Children 0-7, March 1998, London

1998 Children’s Services:  Time for a Fresh Approach?  (Scottish Local Government Information Unit.  SLGIU Discussion Series Paper 9)

1997 ed (with Unni Hagen) Children’s Services:  Shaping up for the Millennium:  Supporting Children and Families in the UK and Scandinavia  The Stationery Office/Children in Scotland, Edinburgh.

1995 Childcare Services for Rural Families : Improving Provision in the European Union. European Commission Network on Childcare, European Commission, Brussels

1993 Childcare in Partnership : Local Authority/ Employer Partnership Initiatives in the European Community (CEC Brussels)
(1994) ‘Tackling Racism in European Childcare Services’ Social Work in Europe ,  Vol. 1 No.3, pp 24-27

(1993) 'The United Kingdom' in (ed. Cochran, M) International Handbook of Child Care Policies and Programs,  Greenwood Press, Westport, pp 515-535

(1993) 'Childcare policy in the European Union: Finding a Place for Children' in ed. Simpson, R.  and Walker, R.  Europe for richer or poorer?  Child Poverty Action Group, London

(1992) 'Childcare Matters' in Journal of Child Poverty Action Group, Spring Issue 81 , London

(1991) 'Taking Time Off. Leave Provision in the European Community for Parents of School-Age Children'  Women's Studies International Forum, Pergamon Press, pp 585-598

1991 (with N. Fraser) Childcare in a Modern Welfare System : Towards a New National Policy,  IPPR, London

1990 Caring for Children : the 1990 report for the European Commission's Childcare Network on Childcare Services and Policies in the UK,  Family Policy Studies Centre, London

(1991) 'Developing Childcare Services in Scotland : Whose Responsibility? ' Scottish Government Yearbook, Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland, Edinburgh

(1988) Report for the European Commission on Childcare Services and Policies in the UK (CEC Brussels)