Making and managing electronic children: E-assessment in child welfare

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 375-394

  Peckover, Sue ^a   White, Sue ^b   Hall, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child welfare; Database; Ethnography; Information sharing; Modernization; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 42349088803     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180802025574     Document Type: Article

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