The White Paper, Adoption: A New Approach: A ‘Curate’s Egg’?

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 6-12

  Ball, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adoption; reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009261293     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590102500103     Document Type: Article

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