Case studies on social innovation in the LTC and ECEC sectors in the Netherlands

This research report is based on four case studies at the company level; two in the childcare sector and two in the longterm care sector. Trade unions and employers’ associations in the Netherlands are active at the national and sectoral levels and have low institutional and hardly any organisation involvement at company and workplace levels. Case studies that have been studied in this report focus on innovative local practices that are recommended or proposed by employment relations actors at the national and sectoral levels or that are dealing with the problems in the quality of labour or labour shortages in the wider care sectors of childcare and longterm care.