SOCIAL INCLUSION

Social Inclusion

Social Inclusion

Introduction

Social inclusion is a multifaceted approach that addresses whether everyone in a society meets the basics of life, as well as issues of income inequality and rising wage levels. It caters to different concerns of individuals with respect to job opportunities and income levels. Social inclusion and connectedness with the society can easily be linked with the mental and physical health of individuals (Baltimore, 1998, pp 20-27). Isolation from society leads to undesirable consequences when a person is demotivated and left out. He in turns abandons his life and career; and become too depressed and embarrassed to participate his share in the societal well being. This paper is intended to frame and place interventions from a service user in the processes of collaborative working for providing social inclusion and support for social integration.

Discussion

Health and Social Inclusion

Social inclusion can be understood as a deliberate effort to restore social ties of the people who for some reason have lost. Every individual has a right to fully participate in the society in which he resides and interacts. This calls for a social inclusion that is primarily based on the concept that every member of a nation state has the right to live with dignity and integrity while being socially and economically active (Boston & Bacon, 2000, pp 219-229). Social inclusion is a concept of not distinguishing or separating any member from the society by way of collaborative working. Robert Kennedy clearly identifies inclusion as being a “bond of common fate”.

This vision of social inclusion seems to derive, in a way obvious and almost natural. This paper attempts to show that there is a deep relationship between social inclusion and the collaborative working in caring for special and specific people (Catts & Kamhi, 1999, pp 95-127).

Poverty is one of the problems that divide individuals within a society. As more people become poor, the rich-poor gap widens and leads to different classes of societies. This is where exclusion takes place. The poorer depends on the government for support while completely abandoning their participation in the economy (Evans, Wills & Samuel, 2008, pp 521-531). On the other hand, the rich enjoys all the benefits and luxuries that life can offer. This rich-poor gap is an issue that has been lately addressed in many countries particularly the United Kingdom.

The 1971 White Paper

The government of the U.K. intends to offer provisions for social inclusion in the mainstream of health care. For this reason, the government produced a White Paper in 2001 for England that sets out a policy agenda that particularly address the issue with people having learning disabilities and deficiencies (Silvestri & Jue, 2002, pp 120-124). The Paper has been named as Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century and it initiated a new approach towards people who are suffering from mental disorders and learning disabilities. It recommends community based care for these handicapped people and supports phased care in collaboration with their parents for ...