Calculating the costs of local authority care for children with contrasting needs

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-90

  Ward, Harriet ^a,b   Holmes, Lisa ^b  

^a Department of Child and Family Research ^*

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Care; Costs; Outcomes; Placements; Troubled behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149110311     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2007.00517.x     Document Type: Article

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