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End Child Poverty campaign
ATL is part of the End Child Poverty Campaign, which is working to eradicate child poverty in the UK.
The aims of the campaign are to:
inform the public about the causes and effects of child poverty
forge commitment between, and across, the public, private and voluntary sectors to end child poverty by 2020
promote the case for ending child poverty by 2020 with government.
ATL, together with all the other supporters of the campaign, is demanding that the government invests the necessary resources and policy changes to deliver on its promise to all children to eradicate child poverty in the UK by 2020.
In 2007 ATL put forward a motion on child poverty at the TUC Congress, where we also held a fringe event on the issue. Autumn 2007 also saw ATL taking the campaign to the party conferences, where we focused on how the curriculum might provide a means of tackling inequalities, including poverty.
The End Child Poverty campaign's Keep the Promise rally took place on 4 October 2008. The event at Trafalgar Square in London provided tens of thousands of children, families and supporters from across the UK with the opportunity to show their desire for an end to child poverty and to set the agenda for the following parliamentary session.
The campaign called on the Chancellor to Keep his Promise to halve child poverty by 2010 ahead of the April 2009 budget.
What you can do
Write to your MP, arrange a visit and tell them to get involved - visit the End Child Poverty site at www.endchildpoverty.org.uk/what-you-can-do/find-your-mp to find out more.
Share your experiences of child poverty by emailing them to media@ecpc.org.uk.
