This working paper critically examines how care policies, with a specific focus on Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and Long-Term Care (LTC), affect family resilience in the six countries covered by the rEUsilience study: Belgium, Croatia, Poland, Spain,...
Brussels, 27th November 2023 Today we publish the findings of focus groups involving over 300 family members across 6 European countries (Belgium, Croatia, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom). These are produced by the rEUsilience project, which is focused...
As “resilience” is increasingly used in European policy circles, it is important to acknowledge structural inequalities that are present in the capacity of families to be resilient. In this next working paper, we have developed (a first version of) an...
A core purpose of the rEUsilience project is to assess the utility of the concept of resilience to understand how families cope with care- and labour market-related challenges and identify lessons for policy. This second working paper – which is the...
Holly Shorey and Mary Daly From the 7th to the 9th of September 2023, the social policy research community gathered in Warsaw for the 21st European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAnet) conference. rEUsilience consortium member LabFam from the University of...
The first working paper from rEUsilience maps how resilience is being used in the EU policy discourse, noting how there is a lack of a clear conceptualisation of how it applies to families. For example, the EU social and economic resilience dashboard monitors Member...
