Advocacy for parents and carers involved with children's services: Making a difference to working in partnership?

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 266-275

  Featherstone, Brid ^a   Fraser, Claire ^b   Ashley, Cathy ^c   Ledward, Pam ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Consult Research ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c Project Management   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Child protection; Parents; Partnership

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960199840     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2010.00738.x     Document Type: Article

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