This volume relates poverty and social exclusion to social work practice in the UK, offering a fresh approach to the challenges social workers face in helping clients out of poverty. Beginning by examining the challenges posed by growing poverty set against cuts in services and tightening eligibility criteria, it argues that the impact social exclusion and poverty has on service users' lives requires social workers to gain a greater awareness of both concepts and their relationship to social work practice. It then considers a range of topical issues, from the role poverty plays in child protection issues and inequalities in health to the dilemmas social workers face in working with asylum seekers, focusing on what they can do in their practice to address social exclusion