Social work, poverty and social exclusion

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Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 210
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume relates poverty and social exclusion to social work practice in the UK, offering a fresh approach to the challenges social workers face in helping clients out of poverty. Beginning by examining the challenges posed by growing poverty set against cuts in services and tightening eligibility criteria, it argues that the impact social exclusion and poverty has on service users' lives requires social workers Read more...

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This book is a key text that will help students link the theory of working with socially excluded people to practice. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction --
Poverty and social work --
Understanding social exclusion --
Broken Britain? The social context of poverty and social exclusion --
Children and families: Poverty, abuse and practice --
Old age: A new social divide? --
Mental distress, recovery and mutual aid --
Making space: Tackling poverty and social exclusion --
Conclusion: Love in a cold climate --
Appendix: Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) bandings.

✦ Subjects

Social service;Great Britain.;Public welfare;Great Britain.;Poor;Social aspects;Great Britain.;Poverty;Social aspects;Great Britain.;Social workers;Great Britain.;Marginality, Social;Great Britain.;Marginality, Social.;Poor;Social aspects.;Poverty;Social aspects.;Public welfare.;Social service.;Social workers.;Great Britain.

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