ABSTRACT
Elsewhere, issues of combating social exclusion are held to be synonymous with a reduction of truancy and exclusion from schools. In the UK, for example, New Labour have expressed a commitment to reducing the number of pupils truanting or excluded from our schools. The Social Exclusion Unit’s (SEU) remit is to report to the Prime Minister on how to:
make a step-change in the scale of truancy and exclusions from school, and to fi nd better solutions for those who have been excluded.
