Policy paper

Loneliness Annual Report: the second year

The second Annual Report on tackling loneliness provides a progress update since the publication of the cross-government Loneliness Strategy in October 2018.

• From: Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Published: 22 January 2021

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Loneliness Annual Report January 2021

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A connected society: a strategy for tackling loneliness published in October 2018, was the world’s first government strategy developed to tackle loneliness in England. Marking a shift in the way we see and act on loneliness, it contained 60 new policy commitments from across nine government departments. This Annual Report provides an update on the progress made against each of these commitments and sets out our work on COVID-19 over the past year and our plans for the future.

This report has been produced by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, with contributions from:

• the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
• the Department for Education
• the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• the Department for Health and Social Care
• the Department for Transport
• the Department for Work and Pensions
• the Home Office
• the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government

Published 22 January 2021