Policy paper

Loneliness annual report: the third year

The third annual report on tackling loneliness provides an update on progress since the publication of the cross-government Loneliness Strategy in 2018.

• From: Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Nigel Huddleston MP
• Published: 15 February 2022

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Applies to England

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Tackling Loneliness annual report February 2022: the third year

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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. Marking a shift in the way we see and act on loneliness, it contained 60 new policy commitments from across nine government departments covering work in England, many of which have since been completed.

Emerging together: the Tackling Loneliness Network Action Plan published in May 2021 details the commitments made by the Tackling Loneliness Network as a response to coronavirus (COVID-19).

The third annual report provides an update on the progress made against all ongoing commitments from both publications, and sets out our work over the past year.

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

• the Department for Education
• the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• the Department of Health and Social Care
• the Department for Transport
• the Department for Work and Pensions
• Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs
• the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• the Tackling Loneliness Network

Published 15 February 2022