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ESRC Social Science Week and GeNet Seminar
Gender and Valuing Care

13.00-17.00, Wednesday 22 June 2005
London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
Room A316 Old Building, (Registration Room A319)

Organisers: Jane Lewis (London School of Economics) and Ceridwen Roberts (University of Oxford)

Programme
13.00 Registration and refreshments
13.30 Chair's Introduction - Ceridwen Roberts (University of Oxford)
13.35 Session One: Valuing Care Work – The Changing Picture

Care Work in the Formal Sector in Europe: Some Understandings and Directions Dr. Claire Cameron (Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education)

Paying for Care in the Informal Sector: European comparisons
Clare Ungerson (Professor Emeritus, University of Southampton)

Questions and Discussion
14.45 Session Two: Care in Europe – A Crisis in the Making?

Care in Europe – Some Inequalities in Access and Provision
Robert Anderson (Co-ordinator, Living Conditions Programme, European Foundation for Living and Working Conditions, Dublin)
15.30 Tea
16.00 Gender and Valuing Care: Where Next?

Panel Discussion chaired by Jane Lewis

Can Society afford the Rising Costs of Care?
 Dr. Diane Perrons (Director, Gender Institute, LSE)
Professor Susan Himmelweit (Open University)
Stephen Burke, Chief Executive, Counsel and Care
Paul Cann, Director of Policy and Research, Help the Aged
17.00 Close