Balancing risk and innovation to improve social work practice

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1211-1228

  Brown, Louise ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

innovation; Risk; social work practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955191748     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcq013     Document Type: Article

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