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Department of Work and Pensions
Key contributions to sustainable development:
1. Working to ensure children have the best start in life, growing up in secure homes, developing skills for the future and with fewer in workless households on the way to eradicating child poverty by 2020.
2. Promoting work as the best form of welfare for people of working age, helping more people into work and supporting those who can't work.
3. Combating poverty and promoting security and independence in retirement for today's and tomorrow's pensioners.
4. Improving rights and opportunities for disabled people in a fair and inclusive society.
5. Ensuring we continue to build sustainability into all our policies and operations, and reporting on our progress.
DWP - Sustainable Development Action Plan
Updated: 2 April 2008