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Constructing vulnerability: the experience of children and other groups within legal discourse / Michelle Aldridge, June Luchjenbroers -- Learning and unlearning being guilty: on the contingent ascription of a deficit category / Thomas Scheffer -- Categorisations of child 'in need' and child 'in need of protection' and implications for the formulation of 'deficit' parenting / Christopher Hall, Stef Slembrouck -- 'She is not coping': risk assessment and claims of deficit in social work / Arthur S. Firkins, Christopher N. Candlin -- Narrative, identity and care: joint problematisation in a study of people living with dementia / Jonathan Crichton, Tina Koch -- 'We're just going to be talking about you...': identifying deficits and achieving quality in nurse-patient discourse / Sally Candlin -- 'You don't want to look like that for the rest of your life': contested discourses of loss in a normative societal context / Lesley Stirling, Lenore Manderson, Jennifer MacFarlane -- Identity work in consultancy projects: ambiguity and distribution of credit and blame / Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson -- On the discursive construction of knowledge deficits in the 'alter' / Peter Kastberg, Marianne Grove Ditlevsen -- The discursive construction of language disorders / Dana Kovarsky, Irene Walsh -- Public and private identity: the co-construction of aphasia through discourse / Elizabeth Armstrong, Alison Ferguson, Lynne Mortensen -- Epistemic injustice and the power to define: interviewing Cameroonian primary school teachers about language education / Edith Esch -- Absence as deficit in assessing intercultural capability / Angela Scarino -- Discourses of deficit and deficits of discourse: computers, disability and mediated action / Rodney Jones -- Young peoples' binge drinking constituted as a deficit of individual self-control in UK government alcohol policy / Chris Hackley ... [et al.] -- Measuring deficit / Tim McNamara -- A neo-colonial farce? Discourses of deficit in Australian Aboriginal land claim and Native title cases / Michael Walsh

Youth Service: Not in Employment, Education or Training (or YS: NEET) is a government programme designed to encourage and assist disadvantaged 16-17 year olds to stay in education or training and improve their qualification attainment. Community organisations are contracted to undertake needs assessments and provide mentoring and support for these youth. This paper evaluates the impact of the programme on the educational retention, qualification achievement, benefit receipt, inactivity and employment rates of participating youth in the 18-24 months after they enrol in YS: NEET. Administrative data from the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) is used to measure individuals' outcomes. The impacts of the programme are estimated by comparing the outcomes of participants with those of a matched comparison group of similar youth who did not participate.

With the future of New South Wales (NSW) regional train services under question, concern has been expressed that replacement of trains with coaches will diminish levels of mobility and raise social exclusion for some people. Provision has been made on coaches for people considered to be disabled, but without recognition of the needs of people who do not fit either able or disabled categorisation. All train services offer better accessibility and therefore mobility to all people. The issue of regional train service cessation and replacement raises questions regarding the reliability of existing Australian studies about train service replacement, the degree to which health and illness are affected, as well as the potential for the exacerbation of existing social exclusion. An examination of the literature and some historical investigation undertaken by the authors highlights these limitations amid the ableism/disablism dualism in existing research and rural transport policy. The paper further suggests that the absence of Australian evidence of mobility loss should not be taken to indicate the reality of regional mobility and social inclusion. Instead the paper argues that further independent mobility loss and social exclusion may occur if coaches are further substituted for regional train services.

This paper reports results from a study that used linked Employer-Employee Data (LEED) to examine the longer-term employment outcomes of people who moved from government income support benefit to employment during 2001/02. The study population was observed for two years before and after the benefit-to-work transition. The study described short-term and longer-term employment retention rates and earnings growth patterns, and compared the outcomes of the benefit-to-work study population with those of non-beneficiaries who began a job in the same year. It investigated some of the factors associated with more or less 'successful' outcomes, including personal characteristics, prior employment experiences, the timing and nature of the benefit-to-work transition, and the characteristics of post-transition employers.