
A new campaign will recruit 35,000 volunteers to help tackle child poverty in England. Run by CSV, the UK’s largest volunteering charity and the Campaign to End Child Poverty, a coalition of over 70 organisations, ‘Dare to Care’ will recruit volunteers to make time to work with children from deprived backgrounds. The charities were joined at the launch by Third Sector Minister, Ed Miliband. (Thursday 21 June 2007). Around 1 in 3 children (3.8 million) live in poverty in the UK, many well below the poverty line (1). The UK has one of the worst rates of child poverty in the industrialised world but efforts to change this can be successful.
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