Time for a Change: A Review of Fostering Now and other Programmes of Research on Children in Need

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 9-22

  Little, Michael ^a,b  

^a Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago   (United States)

^b Dartington Service Design Lab   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

children in need; children s services; fostering

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748041786     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590502900404     Document Type: Article

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