Synopsis

In this unit we explore questions of access to community services. To make what might be quite a dry task more challenging we use a fictionalised case study of two people for whom access to community services is particularly problematic. Jim and Marianne are both long-term heroin addicts. Additional problems associated with their addiction are homelessness and physical illness. Their situation raises both practical questions, about how services can be accessed, and moral questions, about entitlement to resources when their problems can be regarded as at least in part self-inflicted.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Learning outcomes
1: Introducing Jim and Marianne
2: Moral dilemmas
3: Testing the limits
Next steps
References
Acknowledgements

 

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