Reluctant conscripts? Service users' experiences of vocational service modernisation
Abstract
Helen Bird and colleagues report on a small‐scale research project completed in west Yorkshire that examined the effects of the closure of a traditional sheltered workshop on those who attended. The closure was contentious, and the report questions the centrality accorded to ‘social exclusion’ as a central feature of current policy and practice. They argue for a more nuanced approach, which reflects both service users' actual preferences and current social realities.
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Citation
Bird, H., Huxley, U. and Ring, C. (2009), "Reluctant conscripts? Service users' experiences of vocational service modernisation", A Life in the Day, Vol. 13 No. 4, pp. 31-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/13666282200900040
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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