Adoption Reform: Managing Diversity and Delay

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 8-18

  Bell, Margaret ^a   Wilson, Kate ^b   Crawshaw, Marilyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

appropriate timescales and delay; managing diversity; preparing for adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953265547     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590202600304     Document Type: Article

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