Beschreibung:
This unique study explores how strategies to safeguard the provision of legal advice and access to welfare rights to disadvantaged communities might be developed in ways that strengthen rather than undermine the basic ethics and principles of public service provision.
Introduction: Accessing social justice in disadvantaged communities; Social justice and the welfare state; Concepts of justice and access to justice; Ethos and values; Challenges and dilemmas; Public service modernisation, restructuring and recommodification; Conflict and competition versus collaboration and planning; Public service modernisation and time; Alienation and demoralisation - or continuing labours of love?; Access to social justice for disadvantaged communities: value and values