As a student on the social work course, a paramount part of the role is to gain an understanding of the support an individual who has marginalised and excluded from society will need due to factors such as race, gender, age, religion, and the reigning factor of poverty. Living in a country where there is quite a significant amount of government support, I want to gain an understanding of how front-line social workers deal with the impact of poverty, within the community they support. I also want to know what type of policies is used to guide the support service they give to users in these vulnerable circumstances. I also want to gain an understanding of service users' perspective in regard to the support this available to them. The individual
