From Sure Start to Children's Centres: Capturing the erosion of social capital

Journal of Education Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 95-113

  Bagley, Carl ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early years; Governance; Multi agency; Social capital; Sure Start

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751698144     PISSN: 02680939     EISSN: 14645106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2010.493228     Document Type: Article

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