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 On
the 8th December the Prime Minister launched the Social Exclusion Unit.
Mr Blair will chair the unit himself as it focuses on people who do have
the means to engage in a reasonable social, economic and cultural life
of our nation. Edges Magazine congratulates the Blair Administration on this positive initiative, but hopes it will not become a talking shop, trapped within bureaucracy. The Government is telling us that the unit will communicate with various networks and hear views from voluntary organisation as well as local authorities and the business community. The Unit is concentrating on three particular issues: Truancy, Street Living and Problematic housing estates are its primary concerns. Edges Magazine believes it is important that the Government listens to the voices of a diversity of people who feel socially excluded by the circumstances of their lives. The Prime Minister in his opening speech at the launch of the unit stated the following "we don't believe that Whitehall knows best. We need practical experience. We need the insights of people who have worked at the sharp end. Just as we plan to bring in other experience into the government, so too will the unit be outward looking. Finding out the best prospects, the most promising initiatives. Working with communities engaged in making their own solutions and crucially, too, hearing the views of the socially excluded themselves." Well done Mr Blair our contributors in this Magazine are impressed, but let's hope they are not just words |
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