Constructing and sustaining Sure Start Local Programme partnerships: Lessons for future inter-agency collaborations

Journal of Children's Services

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 29-39

  Allnock, Debbie ^a   Akhurst, Sophie ^a   Tunstill, Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inter agency working; Joint working; Partnership; Sure Start

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949562151     PISSN: 17466660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17466660200600021     Document Type: Review

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