Topic: Carer support clear · back to the knowledge map
Most practices in: Switzerland (3) · Japan (2) · Austria (1)
Since October 2020, Bogotá's Care Blocks have offered unpaid caregivers — overwhelmingly women — free childcare, training, wellness and legal services in …
Sweden's daddy months — 1 non-transferable month for fathers in 1995, 2 in 2002, 3 in 2016 — cut the share of …
Norway's 1993 father's quota (fedrekvote) reserves non-transferable paid parental leave for fathers, driving uptake from 2.4% (1992) to 90%. Expanded from 4 …
Since 2021 Canada has struck bilateral deals with every province and territory to cut regulated child-care fees toward $10/day, correlating with record …
Japan's 2022 Child Care Leave Law amendment created a postnatal paternity leave of up to 28 days within the first 8 weeks …
Iceland's 2021 reform expanded paid parental leave to 12 months with 6 months per parent non-transferable, raising fathers' average leave use to …
Spain extended fully paid paternity leave from 2 to 16 weeks — equal and non-transferable — in phases from 2017 to 2021; …
Denmark's 2022 law earmarks 11 weeks of non-transferable paid leave for each parent. Fathers' average leave doubled from ~5 to ~10 weeks …
Finland's 2022 reform grants each parent 160 non-transferable leave days. By 2024, fathers' share of total parental benefit days rose from 12.5% …
Uruguay's Law 19.353 (2015) created the first Latin American national care system, professionalising care work and expanding subsidised childcare and elder care …
Switzerland's federal childcare grant programme (since 2003) co-funded ~63,000 new family-external care places by 2020, helping parents — mainly mothers — combine …
Since 1997, Switzerland's state pension automatically splits spouses' earnings 50/50 and credits fictitious income for child-rearing years, targeting the gender pension gap …
Since 1992 Austria has credited up to 4 years per child toward the pension of the parent who raises them, plus voluntary …
Cuba's referendum-approved 2022 Family Code makes care and domestic work a shared legal duty between spouses, bans sex- and gender-identity discrimination, and …
Approved by Swiss referendum (60.3% Yes, Sept 2020) and in force since 1 Jan 2021, the statutory two-week paternity leave pays 80% …
South Africa's ECD subsidy reaches 1.5 million children (2022, up from ~700k in 2019) via centres staffed over 90% by women. A …
The Faroe Islands extended parental leave from 48 to 52 weeks in 2020, with 4 weeks reserved for fathers - yet fathers …
The I-CARE project’s main objectives were to develop a multifaceted methodology that aimed to improve quality of life both of carers and …
Since 2007, Japan's MHLW certifies employers meeting childcare-leave targets under the 'Kurumin' mark. Over 4,900 firms were certified by early 2025, though …
Mexico's federal government is building a National Care System to redistribute unpaid care work, disproportionately done by women (3 in 4 caregivers). …
Comenius Foundation's fee-free 'Spynka' centres have served roughly 10,000 Ukrainian children and their mothers across 75+ sites in 8 Polish regions, training …
The 2016 EU-Jordan Compact tied trade preferences to Syrian refugee jobs, but only 5% of garment-sector work permits went to women. ILO …
Costa Rica's REDCUDI childcare network aims to free mothers for paid work, but 2024 data show it reaches only 8.8% of its …
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