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3.3 Dealing with Exclusion in the UK
The Government has recently announced new initiatives to tackle exclusion. A new task force has been created who will report to the Minister for Social Exclusion Hilary Armstrong. She has she set out the next steps for the Government's drive to tackle deep-seated disadvantage.
The priority is to reach the one million people at risk of persistent social exclusion, who have not yet benefited from opportunities the majority of people can now take for granted.
The new Social Exclusion Taskforce will concentrate on identifying the most at-risk and focus on specific hard-to-reach groups including children in care, people with mental health problems and teenagers at risk of pregnancy.
An action plan is expected to be published this autumn setting out how the Government will reach the most excluded in society, will focus on key groups and issues. In addition it is expected that the review will: -
- take forward a Ten-Year Strategic Review of the long term trends and drivers of social exclusion and the systemic changes needed to address them
- work closely with the Treasury and other Departments to help secure the best possible outcomes for excluded people and groups in the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review
- begin a program of visits to investigate examples of good practice around the country as part of her goal of ensuring an Action Plan on Social Exclusion leads to real change at the frontline.
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