Reluctant conscripts? Service users' experiences of vocational service modernisation

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Title:	Reluctant conscripts? Service users' experiences of vocational service modernisation
Author(s):	Helen Bird, (Vocational Services Team, South-West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust), Ursula Huxley, (Vocational Services Team, South-West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust), Chris Ring, (Nottingham Trent University)
Citation:	Helen Bird, Ursula Huxley, Chris Ring, (2009) "Reluctant conscripts? Service users' experiences of vocational service modernisation", A Life in the Day, Vol. 13 Iss: 4, pp.31 - 36
Keywords:	Day services, Employment, Mental health, Service modernisation, Sheltered employment
Article type:	General review
DOI:	10.1108/13666282200900040 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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.