'Working Together' – United Kingdom National Action Plan on Social Inclusion 2008-2010
'Working Together' is the fourth UK National Action Plan (NAP) on social exclusion. It explains how people from across the UK will be co-operating from 2008 to 2010 to tackle social exclusion and make a decisive impact on poverty.
'Working Together' follows an agreed format for NAPs and addresses social inclusion objectives shared across the EU. The title of our NAP reflects the vital contribution that people at all levels of UK society – and in particular people experiencing poverty – have made to the development of our social inclusion strategy.
National Action Plan 2008-2010
‘Working together’ – The
UK National Action Plan on Social Inclusion (522KB) 
sets out the government’s strategies and programmes for tackling poverty and social exclusion for the next three years.
There are three parts to the NAP:
- Progress since 2006 and the challenges
- Progress on specific policy objectives identified in the National Action Plan 2006
- Key challenges and strategy for moving forward
Annexes
The NAP has nine annexes.
- Annex 1 (300KB) – provides five examples of good practice in tackling social exclusion across the UK.
- Annex 2 (46KB) – outlines the key targets which the government has set itself in its anti-poverty strategy.
- Annex 3 (223KB) – indicators
- Annex 4 (370KB) – looks at how the development of single outcome agreements has established a new relationship between central and local government in Scotland
- Annex 5 (153KB) – examines the aims and impact of the European Social Fund
- Annex 6 (71KB) – looks at how a number of transport authorities have been successful in developing transport initiatives aimed at ensuring that public transport services provide access to all
- Annex 7 (44KB) – discusses initiatives to address the equality of women
- Annex 8 (74KB) – looks at initiatives designed to engage a broad range of people in issues related to poverty and social exclusion
- Annex 9 (142KB) – looks at developments in social inclusion for older people.
Further information
For further information about the National Action Plan on Social Inclusion or to request a printed copy of ‘Working Together’, please email: karen.deeming@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
UK National Action Plan launch
The UK National Action Plan (NAP) launch event took place on Friday 19 September 2008 at Liverpool Town Hall.
The launch event provided an opportunity for people with direct experience of poverty, academics, key stakeholders in the Government, voluntary and community sectors across the UK to share information and views regarding the National Action Plan for Social Inclusion (NAP) 2008. It also provided an opening to discuss the Government’s proposals for future Welfare Reform as outlined in the Welfare Reform consultation paper "No one written off".
Views of the discussion group have been submitted for consideration by DWP officials as part of the wider response to the consultation exercise and are included in Annex A of the report. The report was prepared by an external consultant.
- Read more about the UK National Action Plan launch event (104KB)
