The end of August saw Tony Blair only just back from his summerholidays, but already he was inviting key people in the sector to hiscountry home, Chequers, to discuss the tricky task of tackling socialexclusion (Children Now, 30 August-5 September).
Not surprisingly, there were those who saw this as a great opportunityfor Blair and his top officials to get to grips with the issues facingthose families at the margins of society, and to begin formulatingrobust policies that would help them and the professionals who supportthem.
And, while the PM is due to formally set out his plans in a keynotespeech this week, he gave an indication of his current thinking in aninterview last week. One of his solutions is to pinpoint so-calledproblem children before they're born and force their families intoaccepting state help in an attempt to avoid them becoming, in Blair'sown words, "a menace to society" as they get older (see News, p5).
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