UK experience of tackling complex disadvantage
Naomi Eisenstadt
Director of the Social Exclusion Task Force, UK Cabinet Office
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Naomi Eisenstadt will be presenting the UK experience of tackling social exclusion. The theme for this talk will be the intergenerational transfer of disadvantage. In particular, she will describe the role of the Social Exclusion Task Force and some of its most recent projects: the effect of place on young people’s aspirations, women in the criminal justice system, and the Public Service Agreement on socially excluded adults. She will use these pieces of work to explore two key approaches to reducing disadvantage: systems reform and evidence based interventions including some examples of successful examples of both approaches. She will conclude her talk with two key challenges: working across government departments with differing priorities and organisational cultures; and the challenge of diversity: what has to be the same nationally and what should be left to local government, and indeed local neighbourhoods to decide for themselves?

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