How much it costs different types of services to care for a child is shown below.

Then we look at the profit-margins made by different services and show what profit is being made. 

This information leads to questions such as:

• Can profit-driven business models deliver what society values for its children and communities?
• And are such models better placed to do this than non-profit driven ones?

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Here’s how our membership plans work:

• Individual Membership plans can view both Individual member-only articles and our library of Research Journals (but not the ECE Service management article area). In addition, individual members can discuss and ask questions of fellow members any time through the online childcare and early childhood education practice, policy, and research discussion forum.
• Early Childhood Service plans can view ALL member articles: Individual, Research Journals and Early Childhood Service articles. Also on this membership plan members can access the online discussion forum for individual members AND the online ECE service management / business forum.
• Research Journal subscription plans can view our library of Research Journals and related research articles only

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