After All These Years: Accessing Care Records

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 39-49

  Kirton, Derek ^a   Peltier, Erica ^b   Webb, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b The Children s Society Adoption and Care: Counselling and Development Project in Peckham   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

care careers; ethnicity; identity needs; post care services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937334970     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590102500406     Document Type: Article

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