Residential Child Care Agencies as Learning Organisations: Innovation and Learning from Mistakes.
The residential child care sector has been scrutinised via numerous inquiries following revelations of abusive and poor practice. These inquiries have made numerous recommendations which involve changes in practice and organisational culture, much of which is congruent with the features of a learnin...
| Publicado en: | Social Work Education Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 240 - 254 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2014
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