Vulnerability management
Vulnerability management
This chapter explores how professionals working in services for vulnerable young people understood and applied the concept of vulnerability in their work. It focuses especially on links between vulnerability and ‘deservingness’, and also considers the significance of gender in how vulnerability operates in practice. Research findings illustrate how subtle but potent expectations of particular behaviours were attached to attaining vulnerability status, meaning that vulnerability classifications could work in the direction of excluding those who might not ‘comply’ with such expectations.
Keywords: vulnerability, vulnerable young people, risk, street level bureaucracy, discretion, gender, deviance, conditionality
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