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THE SAFETY NET

Price: £8.00
Number of pages: 
150
First published: 
July 2011
This edition: 
July 2011
Blurb: 

Victor: discharged from the hospital, with only a derelict shed to return to.

Liam: thrown out by his girlfriend when he lost his job.

Mohammed: evicted from the shared house for asylum seekers after his refugee status was confirmed.

Jason: told to leave home by his mother when his drug use became too chaotic.

Each of them find somewhere to live in Webber House, a hostel for the homeless. But in the bureaucratic, under-resourced world of support services, will Webber House be the safety net they need?

Introductory blurb: 

Although some sections of The Safety Net are inspired by real experiences, it is a work of fiction. Any similarities to particular people or hostels are purely coincidental. Sections relating to the benefits system, social housing and support services are intended to be plausible.

Stimulants says:

This book benefits from being written in a dispassionate style to carefully evoke examples of the lives of those that the media and society as a whole tends to ignore.

Also articulately evoked is a description of the pressure and expectations a worker is expected to contend and cope with.

Conclusions reached could well be anything other than dispassionate.

-- Stair

Contents: 

Mohammed
Minutes of House Meeting
Palmer
Mohammed
Liam
Mohammed
Gornal
Victor
Mohammed
Todd
Mohammed
Jason
Nicole