An exemplary scheme? An evaluation of the integrated children's system

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 613-626

  Shaw, Ian ^a   Bell, Margaret ^a   Sinclair, Ian ^a   Sloper, Patricia ^a   Mitchell, Wendy ^b   Dyson, Paul ^d   Clayden, Jasmine ^d   Rafferty, Jackie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Social Policy Research Unit

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Children's services; ICT; Integrated Children's System; Policy implementation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349592574     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcp040     Document Type: Article

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