Agency against social exclusion to start work at the end of January

An agency against social exclusion designed to improve the situation of people living in ghettoes is due to start work at the end of January, the Minister in charge of human rights and minorities Džamila Stehlíková said on Wednesday. The agency is to improve communication between local authorities and inhabitants of the ghettoes. Some 80,000 people, mainly Romanies, currently live in ghettoes. The agency was originally meant to start working at the start of this year but was delayed by organizational and technical problems.