Poor Clients: What Can I Do?
| Date | 01 December 1989 |
| Published date | 01 December 1989 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058903600402 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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Poor
Clients:
What
Can I
Do?
Faced
with
poor
clients
and
offenders
with
limited
access
to
basic
resources,
it
is
easy
for
Probation
staff
to
feel
out
of
touch
and
deskilled.
Tony
Broadbent
of
South
Yorkshire
Probation
Service’s
Social
Issues
Project
in
Rotherham,
proposes
strategies
to
help
clients
to
tackle
seemingly
intractable
difficulties.
ver
the
last
few
years
there
has
been
an
unprecented
vol-
urne
of
radical
pol-
itical
change
that
has
affected
everyone’s
lives.
Changes
in
legis-
lation,
policy
and
institu-
tions
in
education,
health,
local
government,
social
security,
housing
and
employ-
ment
have
had
a
particularly
acute
im-
pact
on
poor
people
who
do
not
have
the
financial
resources
to
opt
out
where
changes
are
not
in
their
interests.
Probation
clients,
of
course,
belong
largely
to
this
group
of
’poor
people’. Surveys
in
the
North
East
Pro-
bation
Region
in
1985
suggested
that
80%
of
clients
were
claimants
and
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