The impact of regulatory fitness requirements on disabled social work students

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1518-1539

  Sin, Chih Hoong ^a   Fong, Janice ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Anti discriminatory practice; Disability; Legislation; Social work education

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949101535     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcn082     Document Type: Article

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