service user
A widely‐used term for someone receiving social work and/or social services. It has largely replaced the term *‘client’, though this term is sometimes still heard, because client was thought to have connotations of seeing a solicitor or other such professional, thus implying that the social worker was in the role of a distant expert. Under the influence of ... ...
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