Using racial disproportionality and disparity indicators to measure child welfare outcomes

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1101-1106

  Tilbury, Clare ^a   Thoburn, June ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child protection; Child welfare; Disproportionality; Ethnicity; Outcomes; Racial disparity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349116451     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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