Related information
This section explains where to find information related to that in the "Opportunity for all" reports. It provides links to information provided by:
- United Kingdom strategy documents and websites
- United Kingdom's Devolved Administrations
- the UK and other European Union countries
- Measuring child poverty
- Departmental websites
- Other indicators related to those in "Opportunity for all".
United Kingdom strategy documents and websites
General
- 2007 Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review
- Reaching Out: An Action Plan on Social Exclusion
- United Kingdom National Action Plan on Social Inclusion 2006-2008 (752KB)
- Progress on poverty is reported in the annual Households Below Average Income report
Children and Young People
- Lisa Harker’s report – Delivering on Child Poverty: what would it take?
- Working for Children strategy
- Child Poverty Review (this link will take eyou to the HM Treasury website)
- Making a Difference: Tackling Poverty - progress report (639KB)
- Choice for parents, the best start for children: a ten year strategy for childcare (this link will take eyou to the HM Treasury website)
- Raising Expectations: Staying in Education and Training Post-16 (this link will take eyou to the Department for Children, Schools and Families website)
- 14-19 Education and Skills Implementation Plan (this link will take eyou to the Department for Children, Schools and Families website)
- Excellence and Enjoyment - A Strategy for Primary Schools (this link will take eyou to the Department for Children, Schools and Families website)
- Healthy Start: a new food welfare scheme (this link will take eyou to the Department of Health website)
- Review of the health inequalities infant mortality PSA target (this link will take eyou to the Department of Health website)
- Teenage Pregnancy: Accelerating the Strategy to 2010 (this link will take eyou to the Every Child matters website)
People of Working Age
- In work better off: next steps to full employment (1.1MB)
- World Class Skills: Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in England (906KB) (this link will take you to the Department for Children, Schools and Families website)
- Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People (this link will take you to the Cabinet Office website)
Later Life
- Opportunity Age - the government’s strategy for an ageing society
- Security in retirement: towards a new pensions system (1.58MB)
- Personal Accounts: a new way to save
Communities
- Implementing Decent Homes in the Social Sector (this link will take you to the Department for Communities and Local Government website)
- Cutting crime - a new partnership: the Home Office Crime Strategy 2008 (this link will take you to the Home Office website)
- The Decent Homes Target Implementation Plan (this link will take you to the Department for Communities and Local Government website)
- Sustainable Communities: setled homes; changing lives - A strategy for tackling homelessness (this link will take you to the Department for Communities and Local Government website)
- Getting earlier, better advice to vulnerable people (1.1MB) (this link will take you to the Department for Constitutuional Affairs website)
- Causes of Action: Civil Law and Social Justice (1.3MB) (this link will take you to the Legal Services Research Centre website)
- Causes of Action: Civil Law and Social Justice - Summary of Main Findings(38KB) (this link will take you to the Legal Services Commission website)
- Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services (this link will take you to the Department of Health website)
- Choosing Health: making healthy choices easier (this link will take you to the Department of Health website)
- Tackling Health Inequalities - A programme for action (this link will take you to the Department of Health website)
- Life Expectancy (this link will take you to the Department of Health website)
- Health Challenge England - next steps for Choosing Health (this link will take you to the Department of Health website)
- Commissioning framework for health and well-being (this link will take you to the Department of Health website)
- Care Matters: Time for Change (this link will take you to the Department for Children, Schools and Families website)
- DFT Child Road Safety Strategy 2007 (this link will take you to the Department for Transport website)
- Tomorrow's roads - safer for everyone: The second three-year review (this link will take you to the Department for Transport website)
- Securing the Future: UK Government Sustainable Development Strategy (this link will take you to the Sustainable Development website)
United Kingdom's Devolved Administrations
Northern Ireland Executive: New Targeting Social Need
In November 2006 Lifetime Opportunities was launched as the Government's new Anti-Poverty and Social Inclusion Strategy for Northern Ireland.
Lifetime Opportunitiesand its associated targets however have still to be formally considered by the restored Northern Ireland Executive. The Executive is required by Section 16 of the Northern Ireland St Andrews Agreement Act 2006 to adopt a strategy to tackle poverty and social exclusion and patterns of deprivation, based on objective need. The Lifetime Opportunities document can be viewed at the central anti-poverty website.
- Central Anti-Poverty Unit (this link will take you to the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister)
Scottish Executive: Social Justice Annual Reports
Welsh Assembly Government: Annual Report on Social Inclusion in Wales
- Social Justice (this link will take you to The Welsh Assembly website)
- Eradicating Child Poverty in Wales - Measuring Success (this link will take you to The Welsh Assembly website)
The UK and other European Union countries
All European Union countries, including the UK, publish National Action Plans on Social Inclusion every two years.
The most recent cover 2006 to 2008. They can be found here:
- UK National Action Plan on Social Inclusion 2006-2008
- All the National Action Plans on Social Inclusion
Measuring child poverty
In April 2002 we launched our consultation Measuring child poverty 
to seek views on the best way to measure child poverty in the long term. Preliminary conclusions were published in May 2003, and Final conclusions were published in December 2003.
Departmental websites
Departmental websites will give more information on aspects of Opportunity for all. Some links are given within the reports, or you can reach departmental sites through Directgov.
Related indicators
Other indicators documents are published by other government departments:
Opportunity Age
Opportunity Age is the Government's strategy for an ageing society. The strategy aims to end the perception of older people as dependent; ensure that longer life is healthy and fulfilling; and that older people are full participants in society. It was first published in ‘Opportunity Age: Meeting the challenges of ageing in the 21st century’ in March 2005.
Health inequalities team
The Health Inequalities Unit is a small team in the Department of Health with a cross government focus.
Fuel poverty indicators
The Government produces annual reports of progress towards meeting the targets set out in the UK Fuel Poverty Strategy. The reports provide updates on actions since the publication of the UK Fuel Poverty Strategy in November 2001 and highlight some key areas for attention during the coming year.
Indicators of Sustainable Development
There are several sustainable development indicators on the sustainable development website
