Joined-up Working: Improving Young People's Sexual Health and Enhancing Social Inclusion?

Abstract

This paper builds on debates about the meaning and definition of social exclusion through an empirical analysis undertaken as part of a four-year evaluation study of a Scottish demonstration project on young peoples' sexual health. It examines how interventions to improve sexual well-being might be construed as a way of promoting social inclusion, and then explores to what extent the organisation of bureaucratic relations in an intervention characterised by 'joined-up' working helped or impeded social inclusion.