TY - JOUR AB - Helen Bird and colleagues report on a small‐scale research project completed in west Yorkshire that examined the effects of the closure of a traditional sheltered workshop on those who attended. The closure was contentious, and the report questions the centrality accorded to ‘social exclusion’ as a central feature of current policy and practice. They argue for a more nuanced approach, which reflects both service users' actual preferences and current social realities. VL - 13 IS - 4 SN - 1366-6282 DO - 10.1108/13666282200900040 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/13666282200900040 AU - Bird Helen AU - Huxley Ursula AU - Ring Chris PY - 2009 Y1 - 2009/01/01 TI - Reluctant conscripts? Service users' experiences of vocational service modernisation T2 - A Life in the Day PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 31 EP - 36 Y2 - 2024/04/24 ER -