Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion

This fourth edition lays out the ways and means for practitioners to tackle the deprivation and destitution of service users.

John H. Pierson worked for Cheshire Social Services for 14 years before taking up an academic career at Staffordshire University where he taught for 30 years. He is the author of A New History of Social Work: Values and Practice in the Struggle for Social Justice, also published by Routledge.

0.Introduction. 1.What is Social Exclusion? 2.Social Work Values, Poverty and Exclusion. 3.Tackling Exclusion in Practice. 4.Working with Socially Excluded Children and Families. 5.Tackling Exclusion of Young People. 6.Social Care and Excluded Adults. 7.Working with Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods. 8.Social Work and Social Exclusion in Rural Areas. 9.Racism and Social Exclusion. 10.Racism and Social Exclusion.