Introduction

Using this site

News

Background Reading

Cabinet Office Social Exclusion Unit Web Site

Research reports

LIC Policy

Open for All?

The Network Society

National Policy initiatives

European action

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

Social Exclusion Action Planning Network

Training and Development

References

The main entry into government information is the portal at http://www.ukonline.gov.uk.

Such is the wide scope of this that a start point is the Department of Education and Employment's (DfES) web site at http://www.dfes.gov.uk/index.htm. Because of the role of libraries in the People's Network, the website on UK Online Centres provides useful information only on the Capital Modernisation Fund. There is also a report to the Board of the Online Centres programme on community based learning centres, valuable as a planning tool for libraries introducing ICTs as learning and access for deprived communities. DfES is also responsible for the Wired Up Communities experimental programme that is piloting the saturation of home access to ICT in several deprived neighbourhoods, bringing access to services and information and the internet.

Much action around social inclusion is centred on urban strategies for regeneration. In early 2001 new initiatives have evolved around rural deprivation and isolation after the publication of the rural White Paper published in November 2000

http://www.wildlife-countryside.detr.gov.uk/ruralwp/cm4909/index.htm. Access to information and learning opportunities are a feature.

The urban white paper http://www.detr.gov.uk/regeneration/policies/ourtowns/cm4911/index.htm also published in November 2000 should be read in conjunction with the SEU strategies for neighbourhood renewal. Copies of both papers may be had in PDF for downloading.

A useful site to visit is the regeneration portal at http://www.regeneration-uk.com/ which has links and announcements which, although aimed at regeneration practitioners, pull together many strands including government initiatives and funding streams. The Department of Transport Environment and the Regions website has links to research, regeneration spending programmes and also a link to Regen.net a private sector but DETR funded web resource.

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Last updated: Tuesday, 28 August, 2001