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Welfare reform	Date
Welfare reform
The Social Fund: A new approach	01/12/08
Improving health and work: changing lives – Government response to Working for a Healthier Tomorrow, Dame Carol Black’s Review of the health of Britain’s working age population (Working for health website)	25/11/08
Social Fund reform feasibility study	24/11/08
Working for a healthier tomorrow (2.4MB) (this links to the Health Work Wellbeing website)	18/03/08
DWP Commissioning Strategy (734KB) Strategaeth Comisiynu’r Adran Gwaith a Phensiynau (523KB)	28/02/08
"Working Neighbourhoods Fund” document published jointly by Communities and Local Government (CLG) and DWP (links to CLG website)	30/11/07
DWP Commissioning Strategy – interim report (74KB)	27/11/07
Opportunity, Employment and Progression: making skills work (462KB) Cyfle, Cyflogaeth a Chynnydd: gwneud i sgiliau weithio (132KB)	26/11/07
Statutory Sick Pay review working group – final report	25/10/07
North West – Moving Towards Full Employment	18/05/07
Wales – Towards Full Employment	09/03/07
Freud Report – Reducing dependency, increasing opportunity – options for the future of welfare to work	05/03/07
Scotland – Employment and prosperity	26/01/07
Getting welfare right – Tackling error in the benefit system	24/01/07

Pensions and older people	Date
Pensions reform
Community Care Grants – Evaluation of a pilot campaign to increase the understanding and take-up of Community Care Grants by older people in Gateshead – Final report – July 2008 (1.02MB)	16/10/08
Independent Review of Older People’s Engagement with Government	09/10/08
Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2008 (1.12MB)	15/09/08
Memorandum of Understanding between the Department for Work and Pensions, the Pensions Regulator and the Pension Protection Fund (126KB)	27/02/08
Opportunity Age – Meeting the challenges of ageing in the 21st century
Occupational and personal pensions
Pension schemes - consultation of members by employers - DWP guidance (April 2009) (87KB)	06/04/09
Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes – Review of Certain Contracting-Out Terms (972KB)	15/03/06

Children	Date
Child maintenance redesign
Child poverty
Harker report on child poverty	01/11/06

Social inclusion	Date
Valuing employment now – real jobs for people with learning disabilities (Department of Health website)	24/06/09
Secretary of State’s disability equality report (1MB) Easy read – Secretary of State’s disability equality report (27KB)	01/12/08
Opportunity for all – 2007 update	18/10/07
National Report on Strategies for Social Protection and Social Inclusion	19/09/08

Other policy areas	Date
Inquiry into the underlying causes of construction fatal accidents	08/07/09
Proposed changes to the Health and Safety Executive’s Nuclear Directorate (21KB)	16/06/09
The Nation’s Commitment: Cross-Government Support to our Armed Forces, their Families and Veterans	07/01/09
The Buncefield Investigation: The Government and Competent Authority’s Response (282KB)	13/11/08
Review of the Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board	19/11/07
Independent Living Fund Review	15/03/07
Housing costs – Standard Interest Rate (52KB)	14/03/07
Code of Practice for tracing ELCI policies
Mesothelioma
Help and advice for people with mesothelioma (357KB)	22/03/07
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit – Improving claims handling in mesothelioma cases – consultation report (41KB)	01/03/07
Fraud
Sanction Policy – for fraudulent Social Security benefit claims (46KB)	06/02/09
Simplification
Simplification and the customer (746KB)	05/10/07
Benefit Simplification Guide to Best Practice (166KB)	05/07/09
Simplification Plans

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