Excluded voices in inclusive child and youth welfare services

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The voices of social work service users in Germany are getting increasingly prominent. The recent developments in the Child and Youth Welfare Act (SGB VIII) illustrate that participation, self-organisation, and self-representation rights are receiving heightened attention. Simultaneously, questions regarding the requirements, conditions, and possibilities of self-organisation have received relatively minuscule attention so far. Who has the means and opportunities for self-organisation under which conditions? How are social closure processes of significance? What consequences does it have for service users? What insights can we gain at the intersection of social work and special education? In this article, we seek to explore these questions. Initially, we take a journey through history, shedding light on the question of the virulence of social closure and usurpation processes within user movements. Based on this historical recapitulatory overview and repositories of paradigms and theories on social inequali

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European journal of social work, Version of Record (VoR), Taylor & Francis, London, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2024.2438216

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