From "Cycles of Disadvantage" to sure start : discourses of early intervention in families
By: CLARKE, Karen
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ArticlePublisher: Birmingham, UK : Institute of Local Government Studies, 2007Critical Policy Analysis 1, 2, p. 154-169Abstract: Social exclusion is a problematic concept, wich is embedded in several different discourses. These offer differing constructions of its causes, and therefore of the policies necessary to address it. This paper examines discourses of social exclusion at two stages in the process of developing New Labor´s Sure Start programme of early intervention in families with young children. It argues that in the process of moving from a consideration of research evidence on the intergenerational reproduction of social exclusion to the specification of a set of performance targets for the programme, the conceptualisation of social exclusion became more strongly rooted in a moral underclass discourse, in wich individual parental failings are the principal focus of intervention
Social exclusion is a problematic concept, wich is embedded in several different discourses. These offer differing constructions of its causes, and therefore of the policies necessary to address it. This paper examines discourses of social exclusion at two stages in the process of developing New Labor´s Sure Start programme of early intervention in families with young children. It argues that in the process of moving from a consideration of research evidence on the intergenerational reproduction of social exclusion to the specification of a set of performance targets for the programme, the conceptualisation of social exclusion became more strongly rooted in a moral underclass discourse, in wich individual parental failings are the principal focus of intervention
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