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如何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责任问题。该项目将利用六个区域案例研究和政府国家数据集，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。研究结果有望帮助政府建立为儿童购买优质、公平服务的能力;改善数百万中国儿童的生活质量;建立与中国和澳大利亚社会服务相关的政府契约、服务系统治理以及全球社会政策趋同和转移的新理论。

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.