Exploring the limits to local authority social care commissioning: Competing pressures, variable practices, and unresponsive providers

Public Administration

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 419-437

  Rubery, Jill ^a   Grimshaw, Damian ^a   Hebson, Gail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; PUBLIC SERVICE; SERVICE PROVISION; SOCIAL POLICY;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84879271459     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2012.02066.x     Document Type: Article

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