Cumulative jeopardy: How professional responses to evidence of abuse and neglect further jeopardise children's life chances by being out of kilter with timeframes for early childhood development

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 47, Issue P3, 2014, Pages 260-267

  Brown, Rebecca ^a   Ward, Harriet ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child development; Delayed decision making; Emotional and behavioural difficulties; Significant harm; Very young children

Indexed keywords

EID: 84913595784     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.09.017     Document Type: Article

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