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British Journal of Social Work 2007 37(2):187-207; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcl013
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.

Including the Socially Excluded: The Impact of Government Policy on Vulnerable Families and Children in Need

Ann Buchanan

Dr Ann Buchanan is Director of the Centre for Research into Parenting and Children, Reader in Applied Social Studies and Fellow of St Hilda’s College at the University of Oxford.

Correspondence to Dr Ann Buchanan, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, Barnett House, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2ER, UK. E-mail: ann.buchanan{at}socres.ox.ac.uk

This paper is based on a literature review undertaken for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2004 (Buchanan et al., 2004) on the impact of government policy in England and Wales for children aged from birth to thirteen at high risk of social exclusion as recorded up until May 2004. It describes the concept of ‘social exclusion’; its meaning for children; the aims of government policy; the specific impact of government policy on vulnerable families and children in need (including children needing child protection and all ‘looked after’ children) as defined by the 1989 Children Act. The paper demonstrates that although progress has been made, there are still major areas of concern. The more discursive parts at the end of the paper reflect the views of the author and later thinking, and were not part of the original submission to the Social Exclusion Unit.

Keywords: children in need, vulnerable families, social exclusion, family policy


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