The Cabinet Office released its Reaching Out - An Action Plan on Social Exclusion on Monday and the Department for Education and Skills updated its teenage pregnancy action plan yesterday. The focus shifts to information-sharing and system reform today, topped off by a Department for Work and Pensions report on poverty and benefits on Friday.
These documents are not particularly concerned with new policy or money, rather they reinforce overall objectives and highlight the things that work well for areas still struggling.
Teenage pregnancy officials have undertaken what's being called a "deep dive" to inform the process. They discovered that if the 20 worst-performing areas were brought up to the average level, teenage pregnancy would have fallen by 23 per cent, rather than 11 per cent.
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