What do you mean by:
Social inclusion
Social inclusion is basically about making sure everyone has the same opportunities to learn, to work, to be involved with their community and to speak out about things that are important to them.
Find out about the Government’s Social Inclusion Agenda
Read about the ideas behind the concept of social inclusion
Social exclusion
Approximately five per cent of the Australian population aged 15 years or older experience multiple disadvantages. This has a major impact on their ability to learn, work, engage in their community and have a voice on decisions that affect them.
Multiple disadvantages (and combinations of these) can intensify multiple disadvantages and often include:
- low income and assets
- low skills
- difficulties finding and keeping a job
- housing stress
- poor health
- lack of access to services.
- substance misuse
- mental illness
- disability
- family violence
- discrimination and
- homelessness..
Read about the ideas behind the concept of social exclusion.
The National Compact
The Australian Government has proposed a National Compact, or agreement, to help develop stronger relationships between it and all those non-government groups that work in the community - Third Sector. The compact is a new idea and it is still evolving out of community consultations and advice.
For more information, please visit Compact development.
The Third Sector
The Third Sector includes all those non-profit and other non-government organisations that work in the community for the benefit of the community.
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