Animal Health & Welfare Strategy for Great Britain
The Animal Health and Welfare Strategy for Great Britain is the route map for work to improve the health and welfare of kept animals in England, Scotland and Wales. It is a Strategy for all who have a role to play - Government, the food and farming industry, vets, consumer groups and many others. It covers animals kept for pleasure or profit - pets, livestock, game and wildlife where it impacts on kept animals.
The Strategy’s aim is to: “develop a new partnership in which we can make a lasting and continuous improvement in the health and welfare of kept animals while protecting society, the economy, and the environment from the effect of animal disease”.
It sets out a vision for animal health and welfare in Great Britain, showing where we want to be in 2014. This is a strong challenge for everyone involved and the Strategy contains important guiding principles, showing what needs to be done to create the world described in the vision.
The Strategy forms the framework for all of Defra’s work on animal health and welfare. This site will give you more information about the Strategy, what has been achieved so far, as well as the important role of the independent England Implementation Group.
Latest news
22 April 2008 - The EIG's next open meeting will take place on Wednesday 14 May at the Royal Horticultural Halls and
Conference Centre, 80 Vincent Square, London SW1. An invitation 
(42 KB) is available.
31 March 2008 - Information regarding the England Implementation Plan has been published.
18 January 2008 - Defra publishes summary of responses to the consultation on the Eves Review of the Animal Health and Welfare Delivery Landscape, and an accompanying Action Plan. An Information Bulletin has been published.
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Key documents
- Animal Health and Welfare Strategy for
Great Britain
(1.28 MB)
- Animal Welfare Delivery Strategy (170 KB) sets goals and objectives for the delivery of the welfare aspects of the AHWS in England
- Defra Progress Report 2005 (495 KB) which shows what’s been achieved since the launch
- England Implementation
Plan 2004 (389 KB) which outlined Defra’s programme of work when the Strategy
was launched
- Strategy Evidence Base (395 KB) which brought together statistics about animal health and welfare
in GB in 2004
- Strategy Regulatory Impact Assessment
(189 KB)
See also
Page last modified: May 14, 2008