Social Inclusion and Childcare Priority (Sub-Programme)

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7.4 Strategy

These objectives will be achieved through investment in a range of targeted Measures in the following manner:

• significantly boost childcare provision, thus enabling parents (particularly women), especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to combine family life with employment and education/training
• support initiatives aimed at increasing the participation of women in economic and social life and in decision making
• support initiatives at local and community level, including a sustained effort to develop community leadership skills and capacity, designed to alleviate the causes and consequences of poverty and to promote greater social inclusion
• enhance the capacity of the most disadvantaged families to improve their circumstances
• assist the reintegration into the community of those who have been involved in crime
• directly address the needs and problems of young people, in particular young people at risk (diverting them from drifting into unemployment, crime and substance abuse)
• support partnership approaches such as ADM Partnership companies and community groups and local drugs task forces in implementing local and community development action plans
• provide an outreach service to the long-term unemployed.