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Contracting arrangements in children's services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Frank Ainsworth*
Affiliation:
Edith Cowan University, Joondalup campus, Perth, Western Australia, 6027

Abstract

A recent research study of contracting arrangements In children's servtces In Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Is the basts for this article. Key issues In contracting Including the positive and negative aspects of this approach to service provision for contractors and providers are discussed. Questions are also ratsed about the tmpltcattons of contracting for the traditional differentiation between nongovernment not-for-profit and private for-profit organisations

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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