Preventing social exclusion / report by the Social Exclusion Unit.

  • Great Britain. Social Exclusion Unit.
Date:
[2001]
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    4.6 ensuring a decent family income, with work for those who can and extra support for those who cannot, through policies such as the New Deal, Minimum Wage, Working Families Tax Credit, the Minimum Income Guarantee and the State Second Pension; supporting families and the early development of children through targeted interventions such as Sure Start and the Children’s Fund; raising standards in schools and making it less likely that children miss out through exclusion, truancy, not being motivated, or not being able to afford to stay on after 16; improving the experience of local authority care, and helping care leavers, through Quality Protects; making it less likely that people become parents in their teens, or if they do, helping them to get back into learning and work; preventing crime through the Crime Reduction programme, Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships and innovations such as neighbourhood wardens; acting on the routes into homelessness, not just from the care system but also from the Armed Forces and prison; and putting building blocks for economic opportunity in place by boosting regional capacity for innovation, enterprise, know-how and skills development. 4.7