abstract: 'Using data from a longitudinal study of working-class participants on a

  youth enterprise start-up programme in the United Kingdom, we examine

  whether programmes aimed at disadvantaged groups enable parents to

  combine business trading with childcare responsibilities. Business

  planning and programme selection practices ignored childcare, rendering

  it a solely private matter, invisible to public scrutiny. Yet this

  childcare barrier became both a cause and a consequence of business

  failure. Participants'' experiences of combining trading and childcare

  varied by gender. All mothers and one father had complex strategies for

  synchronising trading and childcare responsibilities. However, these

  strategies soon collapsed, contributing to business closure. Most

  fathers relied on the childrens'' mother to organise and conduct

  continuous care, but this was dependent on fathers becoming breadwinners

  through profitable trading which was not achieved. There is growing

  policy recognition of the importance of the childcare barrier to paid

  work for lower income families and for self-employed women in the United

  Kingdom. However, despite recent initiatives, severe constraints remain

  for working-class parents to start and manage a business. Several

  implications for policy are discussed.'
affiliation: 'Rouse, J (Corresponding Author), Manchester Metropolitan Univ, Ctr Enterprise,
  Aytoun Bldg,Aytoun St, Manchester M1 3GH, Lancs, England.

  Manchester Metropolitan Univ, Ctr Enterprise, Manchester M1 3GH, Lancs, England.

  Kingston Univ, Small Business Res Ctr, Surrey KT1 7LB, England.'
author: Rouse, J and Kitching, J
author-email: 'j.rouse@mmu.uk

  j.kitching@kingston.ac.uk'
author_list:
- family: Rouse
  given: J
- family: Kitching
  given: J
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1068/c0528
eissn: 1472-3425
files: []
issn: 0263-774X
journal: ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-GOVERNMENT AND POLICY
keywords-plus: FAMILY
language: English
month: FEB
note: 'Conference of the Institute-for-Small-Business-and-Entrepreneurship,

  Univ Tesside, Newcastle, ENGLAND, 2004'
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '42'
orcid-numbers: Kitching, John/0000-0002-2709-1008
pages: 5-19
papis_id: a97f894f551831c3dab06bb68a3351c7
ref: Rouse2006doenterprise
researcherid-numbers: 'Peter, Serin/ITR-8938-2023

  '
times-cited: '50'
title: Do enterprise support programmes leave women holding the baby?
type: Article; Proceedings Paper
unique-id: WOS:000235608100002
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '12'
volume: '24'
web-of-science-categories: Environmental Studies; Public Administration
year: '2006'