In the last ten years Italy has seen an exponential growth in private care work, a sector that is to a great extent unregulated, marked by misinformation, uncertainty of labour relations, little correspondence between supply and demand, and dynamics of domestic segregation. In the absence of a national policy on non-self-sufficiency there has been a proliferation of regional and local services to support this sector. These interventions need to be coordinated and integrated with each other, creating a regulated market with a minimum set of rules, accepted by both families and carers.only subscribers can see the full article