Describing the needs of children presenting to children's services: Issues of reliability and validity

Journal of Children's Services

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 48-59

  Forrester, Donald ^a   Fairtlough, Anna ^b   Bennet, Yommi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Prospect House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Closed referrals; Content validity; Need; Reliability; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992948057     PISSN: 17466660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17466660200700016     Document Type: Review

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