The overall scope of the document is to set out the next steps in implementing the government’s welfare to work programme. TAEN’s response to the Green Paper on Welfare to Work In Work Better Off: Next Steps to Full Employment, prepared in October 2007, outlined our views on the developing programme and the outline of the Flexible New Deal at the time. No-one Written Off develops the government’s plans focusing in particular on sections of society sometimes regarded as being beyond work, but for whom greater efforts could be made, hence its title.