1. Sustainable Growth, Social Inclusion and Family Policy: Innovative Ways of Coping with Old and New Challenges Mary Daly, Sigrid Leitner, Anneli Rüling, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser and Timo Fleckenstein

2. Projects A. Family Policy in Focus (Mary Daly)
B. Gateway of Family and Education Policy
(Sigrid Leitner, Anneli Rüling)
C. Enterprises as Actors in Family Policy
(Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Timo Fleckenstein)

3. Common Concerns Changing functions of families and family policies
Changing relationship between family, market, state and society
Selective engagement with family and family functions
New agency/governance structures

4. Project A: Family Policy in Focus Objectives
Identify family-related practices, behaviours and needs
Identify challenges for policy
Identify emerging policies
Develop a model policy template

5. Project A: Research Questions
How are family forms and behaviours changing?
What are the challenges that policy is responding to?
What are the policy trajectories?
What needs or gaps are unfulfilled?

6. Project A: Research Methods
Comparative analysis of key policy developments
Identification of family related behaviours and practices

7. Project B: Gateway of Family and Education Policy - Objectives
Identifying the challenges in family and education policies
Analysing the changes in family and education policies
Scrutinising new governance structures, i.e. federal initiatives in co-operation with local governments and civil society

8. Project B: Research Questions
How are high quality education and social inclusion addressed for pre-school children and teenagers?
Which changes happened in family and education policy and how were they justified in the political debate?
Which different governance structures have developed in the two countries?
Which role do civil society initiatives play in best-practice-initiatives?
How do institutions of the education system co-operate with civil society initiatives?

9. Project B: Research Methods
Comparative analysis of two bills in GB and D in the area of: - Early Childhood Education and Care and - All-day-schooling and social integration of teenagers from disadvantaged groups
Methods: Document analysis (bills, parliamentary debates), Semi-structures interview with experts (from government bodies, science and civil society)
3 best practice case studies of local initiatives in GB and D in the area of: - Early Childhood Education and Care and - Social integration of teenagers from disadvantaged groups Methods: Qualitative case studies, document analysis

10. Project C: Enterprises as Actors in Family Policy Objectives
Identifying the scope of family policies by firms
Explaining the scope of extra-statutory family policies
Business reasons
Norms of employers
Institutional framework and incentives
Pressure by stakeholders

11. Project C: Research Questions
Which family policies are actually provided by firms? Does the provision of occupational benefits differ between ‘German’ and ‘British’ companies?
What are the reasons for the provision as well as non-provision of family policies by firms? And more specifically, why are certain policies provided rather than others?
What is the impact of the political economy and the welfare state on the provision of family policies by firms?
What is the impact of trade unions, work councils and equal opportunities officers on the provision of family policies by firms?

12. Project C: Research Methods
Secondary Data Analysis: Mapping the Provision of Occupational Family Policies in the UK and Germany
UK: Work-Life Balance Studies (Employers’ and Employees’ Survey), Work Employment Relations Surveys (WERS)
Germany: IAB Employers’ Survey, IW Emloyers’ Survey, various Employees’ Surveys by the HBS
Documentary Analysis of Selected Company Publications
Survey among Employers, Employees’ Representatives and Equal Opportunities Officers of
FTSE 100 Companies (UK) and
DAX (30), SDAX (50), MDAX (50) Companies (Germany)
Aiming to Identify the Reasons for (Non-)Provision of Firm-level
Family Policies
Four Qualitative Case Studies in the UK and Germany (interviews with management, representatives of employees and equal opportunities officers)

13. Project C: Public Regulatory Framework for Family Policies (selected measures)
United Kingdom
Germany
Maternity
Leave
90% of the average weekly income for the first 6 weeks, then £ 108,85 (maximum duration of 39 weeks; previously 26 weeks), 13 weeks of unpaid additional maternity leave
100% of the previous net income for 14 weeks
Paternity L.
£ 108,85 for up to 2 weeks -
Parental Leave
Entitlement to unpaid parental leave of 13 weeks
Monthly benefit of € 300 for 2 years (or € 450 for 1 year; allows employment of up to 30 hours/week); alternatively: 67% of previous net income for up to 14 months, of which 2 are ‘daddy months’ (max. benefit of € 1800)
Working-time
Entitlement to request part-time work
Entitlement to part-time work
Emergency Leave
Unpaid leave for a reasonable amount of time
Paid leave of up to 50 days (compensation equivalent to sickness benefit)