Education and Elderly Care in Denmark, Norway and Sweden: National Policies and Legal Frameworks for Private Providers

Segaard, Signe Bock; Saglie, Jo

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“…As we have seen, Alltown’s choice to only contract one provider per course area means that providers here, once they have won the contract, were not exposed to competition and did not have to hunt for students, as was the case in Blendedville. As previously pointed out by Segaard and Saglie (2017: 95) these meso-level actors ‘play a decisive role in shaping the welfare mix’ when state policy creates room for each municipality to enact its own model of government. In other words, the way MAE outsourcing policy is locally interpreted and translated leads to differences in where responsibility and discretion are allocated.…”

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Auctioning out education: On exogenous privatisation through public procurement

Holmqvist

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2020

European Educational Research Journal

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Privatisation of public education is becoming more and more common across the world. As much current research presupposes causal links between the degree of privatisation and issues of competition and student’s free choice, we see a need for research on other ways of organising the presence of private providers in public education. In this article, we study how two Swedish municipalities use public procurement to contract private providers and organise adult education. Interestingly, we find that competition is more heavily at play in the municipality that outsources half of its adult education, than in the municipality that outsources all adult education. We view these findings as vital for understanding how education is being outsourced to private providers and for furthering the discussion on the consequences of the ongoing privatisation of education.

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Auctioning out education: On exogenous privatisation through public procurement

Holmqvist

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2020

European Educational Research Journal

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“…Danske myndigheter har flere styringsverktøy som gir dem mer kontroll over velferdsmiksen, som at ideelle, selveiende institusjoner innen eldreomsorg og barnehager kan tas inn i det kommunale tildelingssystemet uten anbudskonkurranse. Friskolene må dessuten vaere nonprofit-organisasjoner (Segaard og Saglie 2017). Denne skjermingen gir de ideelle mulighet til å utvikle tilbud der det ikke er interessante markeder for kommersielle og heller ikke naturlige oppgaver for de offentlige aktørene.…”

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“…De institusjonelle, legale og politiske rammebetingelser i de skandinaviske landene adskiller seg imidlertid fra hverandre på vesentlige punkter (Segaard og Saglie 2017). Ved å sammenligne utviklingen kan man se hvilke resultater de ulike styringsvirkemidlene har for sammensetningen av kommersielle, ideelle og offentlige aktører , og for brukerne av tjenestene (Lindén, Fladmoe og Christensen 2017;Traetteberg 2017).…”

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“…Dessuten kan det dannes oligopoler som kan bestemme priser og holde nye aktører ute. De kommersielle velferdsaktørene har heller ikke det samme mangfoldet i tjenesteprofiler og verdier som de ideelle representerer (Traetteberg 2017), men styringssystemet har ingen virkemidler for å regulere velferdsmiksen mellom de kommersielle, offentlige og ideelle (Segaard og Saglie 2017). …”

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Forholdet mellom offentlige, kommersielle og ideelle velferdsleverandører i skandinaviske velferdsstater

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“…One element was the increased use of school choice. This right was strengthened in all three countries throughout the period (Segaard & Saglie, 2017). In Denmark and Norway, this involves making it easier to change between public schools, while nonprofit schools, especially in Denmark, have remained an alternative to public school, just as they have always been.…”

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13 Stability and Change in Scandinavian Welfare: The Nonprofit Sector as a Buffer against For-Profit Expansion

Trætteberg¹

2018

Democratic State and Democratic Society

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In 1984, as a reaction to conservative calls for the introduction of for-profit providers in day care for children, the ruling Swedish social democrats passed a special law prohibiting the flow of any public money to private day care for children. This was in spite of long queues and a general inability to offer sufficient public supply (Rothstein, 1993). This hostility to for-profit providers was also reflected in the statement by prime minister Olof Palme that the public school was 'a spearhead into the future classless society', something which may explain why the share of children in private schools was as low as 0,2 per cent in the mid-1980s (Blomqvist, 2004, p. 157). Today, approximately 30 years later, for-profits have gained a market share of around 20 percent of welfare services in Sweden, and their share of welfare is growing at accelerating speed (Sivesind, 2017). In Stockholm, users of public home care services for the elderly must choose from among more than 100 providers in each district. The competition has led to almost 40 percent of the providers having names that starts with an A, and some even choosing names beginning with AAA, to increase their likelihood of being chosen (Szebehely, 2014). This example documents that changes have taken place in some of the core institutional arrangements in the Nordic welfare system. Interestingly, this change is not paralleled in Denmark and Norway, prompting questions about what conditions have made Sweden take, in some ways, a radically different path than their Scandinavian peers. This is in spite of the welfare goals in all three countries increasingly focusing on democratic values, such as personal autonomy, personal choice and moving power from public bureaucrats to the citizens (Rostgaard, 2015, p. 4). The means for reaching these goals is what is different. Looking at this period of time, from the 1990s to today, in this chapter I use schools and elderly care as examples to show the depth of the changes, explain the institutional prerequisites for change and reflect upon the future of the Scandinavian welfare model. The changes are important because the nature of the welfare services constitutes a main outcome of the Scandinavian electoral democracy. It is thus important to understand the room elected representatives have to make choices about the welfare mix-the division of public, nonprofit and for-profit providers-and the context where they make such decisions. Furthermore, inasmuch as providers from the different sectors are different, it can spur a plurality of service content that enables citizens to get services in accordance with their individual preferences at the same time as it may challenge important values such as equity.

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Education and Elderly Care in Denmark, Norway and Sweden: National Policies and Legal Frameworks for Private Providers

Cited by 16 publications

References 4 publications

Auctioning out education: On exogenous privatisation through public procurement

Auctioning out education: On exogenous privatisation through public procurement

Forholdet mellom offentlige, kommersielle og ideelle velferdsleverandører i skandinaviske velferdsstater

13 Stability and Change in Scandinavian Welfare: The Nonprofit Sector as a Buffer against For-Profit Expansion

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