Policy Hub
Social Exclusion Unit and the Centre for Management and Policy Studies
September 2002
Acknowledgements
We are very grateful to all the participants in this study who generously gave their time to the interviews, group discussions and written submissions. We thank them for their careful consideration of the issues raised, for the openness with which they articulated them and for their constructive and imaginative consideration of solutions.
We also acknowledge the openness of the Social Exclusion Unit (SEU) in exposing to scrutiny this aspect of its work, and we thank those involved for their participation in and support of the study.
We would also like to thank Juliet Mountford and Sue Duncan at the Policy Studies Directorate, Centre for Management and Policy Studies (CMPS), for their guidance and support throughout this study.
Finally, we would like to thank Robin Legard of the National Centre for his very considerable interviewing skills and adept contribution to the data analysis.
William O'Connor and Jane Lewis
National Centre for Social Research
Steve Turner
Consultant to the Centre for Management and Policy Studies