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Definitions of"Social exclusion" in the New Labour years have involved a denial ofstructural inequalities' - Assess the validity of this judgement.
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Definitions of "Social exclusion" in the New Labour years have involved a denial of structural inequalities'. Assess the validity of this judgement. The explicit use of the term 'social exclusion' (SE) is relatively recent in origin in the UK. However it has been utilised in European social policy context for some time in particular through the 1990-94 EU anti-poverty programme focusing on the integration of the 'least privileged'. New Labour has adopted the concept as a key policy priority, this is no accident and the term itself was not settled on until months into government. This thought out policy target was reinforced by the establishment of the 'Social Exclusion Unit' (SEU) in 1997. The SEU was set up by the Prime Minister to help improve Government action to reduce social exclusion by producing 'joined-up solutions to joined-up problems'. The SEU website provides the following definition of social exclusion: '...a shorthand term for what...
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