Assessing the local need for family and child care services: a small area utilization analysis.
This article reports the findings of a study to develop a new method for allocating resources to family and child care services within Northern Ireland. Downloads from financial and client databases, together with a survey of social worker case activity, were used to estimate utilization costs acro...
| Publicado en: | Child Welfare Vol. 79; no. 5; pp. 535 - 554 |
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Child Welfare League of America
September/October 2000
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