ABSTRACT
Social exclusion as a process is grounded in poverty and disadvantage but works across several dimensions of social life, with lack of access to education and work, weakened social networks and loss both of self-esteem and influence over events. As a process social exclusion has a disproportionate impact on young people. This chapter explains why this is so and lays out a number of approaches that social workers may adopt, either on their own or in partnership with other agencies and local organisations.
