Defining quality care for looked after children: Frontline workers' perspectives on standards and all that?

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 67-77

  Watson, David ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frontline workers; Government; Quality; Residential childcare

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244389304     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2206.2003.00263.x     Document Type: Article

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