Implementing the Community Care (direct payments) Act: Will the supply of personal assistants meet the demand and at what price?

Journal of Social Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 469-488

  Scourfield, Peter ^a  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; DISABILITY;

EID: 22244433192     PISSN: 00472794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047279405008871     Document Type: Article

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