Community and individual: Two perspectives on inclusion and vulnerability

In: Housing, care and support, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 4-11

Abstract

This paper produced for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation explores the connections between different strands of current social policy: support to strengthen and stabilise communities and neighbourhoods, support and care for individuals living or settling in communities and the potential and willingness of communities to support and act inclusively towards people who are vulnerable or in need of particular services. It posits a central tension between 'consumerist' and 'collective' approaches to services which may be inhibiting effective policy and practice. Is this actually the case?