Tackling Exclusion
This project was a scoping one, which aimed to identify employment and skills outcomes for the most excluded in society. And also assesses whether the current performance management and funding framework encourages providers to work with the hardest to help, and explored options of delivery that would improve outcomes for socially excluded groups.
Tackling Exclusion initially focussed on the following target groups, who are particularly vulnerable to multiple forms of disadvantage that makes them at risk of falling into persistent exclusion:
- People with health problems/disability and/or learning disabilities
- People with mental health problems
- Ex-offenders
- Homeless people
- Recent migrants and different ethnic groups.
It also drew on evidence from other projects both within the UK Commission and outside. The findings from the Customer Journey and review of Measures, Targets and Incentives in particular were used to inform and expand the work of this project. Furthermore it built on the work already done by those involved with PSA 16 which aims to improve the employment outcomes for socially excluded groups.
The Tackling Exclusion project ran from May 2009 to March 2010 with a final report (PDF, 858 Kb) published in June 2010.
