Facilitating access to services for children and families: Lessons from Sure Start Local Programmes

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 287-296

  Garbers, Claudia ^a   Tunstill, Jane ^a,c   Allnock, Debbie ^a   Akhurst, Sofie ^b  

^a London Borough of Barking and Dagenham   (United Kingdom)

^b NESS Research Team   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access; Children's centres; Children's services; Sure Start

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749337515     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2006.00436.x     Document Type: Review

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