ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the empirical materials and data from the Parent Study of the Swedish Project on Work Environment and Cooperative Social Services. It explores an extension and adaptation of the concept of co-production to the area of personal social services and social enterprises providing such services. The chapter also presents data on three different forms of social enterprises providing daycare services in Sweden. These include parent cooperatives, voluntary organizations and worker cooperatives. The parents of both the first two types of social enterprises express similar attitudes to the positive aspects of the work obligation. The ownership structure and work obligation of parent cooperatives and voluntary organizations make for greater parent involvement in the running of such daycare services. Parents judge the performance of their child's daycare service on its own merits, not on some general or absolute merits of 'good pedagogics' or 'good childcare'.
