Troubling Families: Parenting and the Politics of Early Intervention

Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 204-224

  Gillies, Val ^a  

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Author keywords

Child Poverty; Coalition Government; Early Intervention; Family Policy; Millennium Cohort Study

Indexed keywords

EID: 85145045531     PISSN: 26346532     EISSN: 26346540     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/9781137281555_11     Document Type: Chapter

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