Animal Health and Welfare Strategy

The Animal Health and Welfare Strategy for Great Britain is the route map for work to improve the health and welfare of kept animals in England, Scotland and Wales. It is a Strategy for all who have a role to play - Government, the food and farming industry, vets, consumer groups and many others. It covers animals kept for pleasure or profit - pets, livestock, game and wildlife where it impacts on kept animals.

The Strategy's aim is to:

"develop a new partnership in which we can make a lasting and continuous improvement in the health and welfare of kept animals while protecting society, the economy, and the environment from the effect of animal disease".

Visit http://www.defra.gov.uk/ for more on the Animal Health and Welfare Strategy.

The England Implementation Group is an independent advisory group appointed by the Government to drive forward delivery, in England, of the Animal Health and Welfare Strategy for Great Britain.

Visit http://www.defra.gov.uk/ for more on the England Implementation Group.