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Understanding costs and outcomes in child welfare services : a comprehensive costing approach to managing your resources / Lisa Holmes and Samantha McDermid.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holmes, Lisa.
- Series:
- Child welfare outcomes (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)
- Child welfare outcomes
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Services for--Great Britain.
- Children.
- Child welfare--Great Britain--Finance.
- Child welfare.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Today's child welfare services operate under a limited supply of resources. This book explains how finite resources can be used most effectively, providing social work managers and policymakers with a comprehensive costing model to assess the links between needs, costs and outcomes across the full range of child welfare services.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The conceptual framework
- The calculation of unit costs
- Additional services
- Understanding children's needs and outcomes
- Making use of cost calculations: building and supporting an evidence base
- Conclusion: implications for policy and practice.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613363916
- 9781283363914
- 1283363917
- 9780857004482
- 0857004484
- OCLC:
- 769342998
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