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Anne West Funding early years education and care: can a mixed economy of providers deliver universal high quality provision? Article (Accepted version) (Refereed) Original citation: West, Anne (2010) Funding early years education and care: can a mixed economy of providers deliver universal high quality provision? British Journal of Educational Studies, 58 (2). pp. 155- 179. ISSN 1467-8527 DOI: 10.1080/00071000903520850 © 2010 Society for Educational Studies This version available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/28258 / Available in LSE Research Online: June 2014 LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute the URL (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk) of the LSE Research Online website. This document is the author’s final accepted version of the journal article. There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from it. Funding early years education and care: Can a mixed economy of providers deliver universal high quality provision? ‘Your child will get a good quality early years education, regardless of the type of setting they attend’ (Directgov, 2009a, p.2). Introduction Policies relating to early years education and care across the developed world and par