Temporal discrimination and parents with learning difficulties in the child protection system

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 997-1015

  Booth, Tim ^a   McConnell, David ^b   Booth, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Child protection; Learning difficulties; Parents; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748758416     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bch401     Document Type: Article

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