Government purchased services for children

政府为儿童购买服务。该项目旨在建立中国政府可以避免其他国家政府在过去30年购买儿童福利服务时面临的质量和问责问题的方法。通过六个地区案例研究和政府国家数据集，本项目将确定新采购模式的影响，并解决中国新兴福利国家的重大监管风险。预计调查结果将有助于建立政府购买优质、公平的儿童服务的能力；改善数百万中国儿童的健康状况；构建与中澳社会服务相关的政府承包、服务体系治理、全球社会政策趋同与转移等新理论。

Government purchased services for children. This project aims to establish ways the Chinese government can avoid the quality and accountability problems other countries’ governments have faced when purchasing child welfare services over the last 30 years. Using six regional case studies and government national datasets, this project will identify the effect of new purchasing models and address significant regulatory risks in China’s burgeoning welfare state. Findings are expected to build governments’ capacity to purchase good quality, equitable services for children; improve outcomes for millions of Chinese children; and build new theories of government contracting, service system governance, and global social policy convergence and transfer, relevant for Chinese and Australian social services.