Wellbeing and Work: Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups in Northern Spain

All the current policies and actions offered from the various bodies and organizations in the area of social protection against exclusion, including the European Union, are directed towards achieving the objective and concentrate on the people involved obtaining employment. The great heterogeneity noticeable in these processes shows the necessity of providing responses, actions and programmes that are differentiated and specific.This study, from a qualitative methodological design, analyse the multiple factors that make people belonging to certain groups at risk of exclusion. Among them are women at risk, the disabled, immigrants, the population of drug addicts and former addicts, and other groups such as the homeless or ethnic minorities, mainly Gypsy people. On the basis of an analysis of the data, a range of tools, strategies and competencies is outlined for consideration so as to achieve their social inclusion through the world of work