No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility

The Green Paper "No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility" was a wide ranging consultation on the future of welfare. It set out plans for improving support and work incentives to create a system that rewards responsibility and delivers greater choice and control over the support that is provided. The consultation closed on 22 October 2008. Find out more about what happened with the consultation activity.

The White Paper Raising expectations and increasing support: reforming welfare for the future was published on 10 December 2008.  It sets out in detail the plan for the future as part of our vision for a personalised welfare state, where more support is matched by higher expectations for all.

Read the Green Paper

PDF

• No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility (1.73MB)

Section by section - PDF

• Cover (386KB)
• Title (77KB)
• Contents (41KB)
• Foreword (170KB)
• Executive summary (157KB)
• Chapter 1 Promoting opportunity and realising potential (295KB)
• Chapter 2 An obligation to work (503KB)
• Chapter 3 No one written off (377KB)
• Chapter 4 Ending child poverty (190KB)
• Chapter 5 Delivering choice and control for disabled people (208KB)
• Chapter 6 Simplifying and streamlining the benefit system (258KB)
• Chapter 7 Empowerment and devolution – a new way of delivering our services (172KB)
• Chapter 8 Next steps – our commitment to listen (122KB)

Large print

• No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility – large print (974KB)

Easy read version

• No one written off – Easy read version part 1 (1MB)
• No one written off – Easy read version part 2 (963KB)
• No one written off – Easy read version part 3 (968KB)

Consultation questions

• No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility – List of consultation questions (13.9KB) rich text format

Quick Read

The Quick Read is a shorter summary of the Green Paper.

• No one written off - quick read (547KB)

The printed version includes a FREEPOST response form to make it easier for people to send in their views on the policy proposals. If you are running a consultation event, you can order copies using the contact details below.

Impact assessment

• Impact assessment – No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility (387KB)

More support, higher expectations

The Government believes that citizens should meet certain conditions in return for state support and that this will help people to find work and escape poverty. This is known as conditionality.

• More support, higher expectations: the role of conditionality in improving employment outcomes (169KB)   considers the impact and effectiveness of conditionality in the UK welfare system

Copies of the consultation

You can order copies of the consultation from:

Post: Department for Work and Pensions, Welfare Reform Green Paper Team, Room 249, Level 2, The Adelphi, 1-11 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6HT
Fax: 020 7712 2458
Telephone: 020 7712 2316
Textphone: 020 7962 8380

Alternative formats are available in:

• easy read
• large print
• braille
• audio
• Welsh

More information

Our About DWP consultations page has more information about the code of practice we follow and explains how we deal with responses.

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