We help people to achieve their potential through employment, so that they are able to provide for their children and to work and save for secure retirement.


Our aims

We want children to have the best possible start in life, growing up in secure homes and developing skills for the future. One of our objectives is to end child poverty by 2020 and we are working with other government departments to make this happen.

We are promoting work as the best form of welfare, helping more people into work and supporting those who can't work.

Another key target for us is to help people plan for retirement and, when in retirement, to access their entitlement.

We are also working to improve rights and opportunities for disabled people.

Our main customer groups

Our main customer groups are:

• children
• people of working age
• pensioners
• disabled people and their carers.

We design and monitor our strategies through two client groups for:

• work, children and disabled people
• pensions.