Maintaining a focus on the child? First impressions of the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families in cases of child neglect

Child Abuse Review

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 195-213

  Horwath, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Child maltreatment; Child neglect; Implementing change; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 85022621905     PISSN: 09529136     EISSN: 10990852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/car.742     Document Type: Article

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