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News Items 2006 - 7th of Jan, 2006
19 December 2006 Liberal Democrats commit to ending child poverty by 2020 and bring a significant political consensus to be celebrated. A delighted Campaign to End Child Poverty recognises the added pressure that Campbell’s statement today places on the Government to start achieving its aims to halve child poverty by 2010.
8 December 2006 Chief Rabbi's Thought for the Day, BBC Radio 4 Sir Jonathan Sacks, who attended the National Poverty Hearing, gives his reaction to hearing about the scale of poverty in the UK.
7 December 2006 Child Benefit Payments to be made from 29th week of Pregnancy. Members of the Campaign to End Child Poverty respond to the Chancellor's Pre-Budget Report in this Guardian Article.
6 December 2006 Faith Leaders and Charities Unite Against UK Poverty The National Poverty Hearing, on Wednesday 6 December, is a unique event that will bring together this diverse group of leaders to convey the experiences of poverty in everyday Britain and challenge the myth that poverty is not ‘real’ in the UK.
1 December 2006 The Wrong Trainers, Newsround, CBBC Newsround recently launched this special programme, which investigates child poverty in the UK; It demonstrates the variety of current experiences of children in the UK by enabling 5 young people to narrate their stories over a series of animations. This powerful expose is must-see TV, and sets out very clearly the scale of the challenge ahead. The website is one of Newsround's most popular sites ever.
20 November 2006 Children hand Christmas wish to The Chancellor, and Government Ministers, Jim Murphy MP and Beverley Hughes MP on steps of the Treasury on Universal Children’s Day. The Children will be giving each Minister a seasons greetings card on the final day of the Month of Action to End Child Poverty. Within the cards will be the names of over 100 senior figures who support the campaign including Chief Executives and Trustees of member organisations, Religious leaders and the Kaiser Chiefs who have all signed up to join the Campaign to End Child Poverty’s call to the Government to commit more resources to ending child poverty.
3 November 2006 National MP's Day Out MP’s and Government Ministers visit projects and schools across the country in national MP’s Day Out for the Month of Action to End Child Poverty.
On October the 17th the End Child Poverty Month of action was launched, with a letter to the Chancellor.
ECP letter in The Times 16/06/06 in response to article published on 14th June, see link for further details http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8164-2221157,00.html
6 July 2006 Unequal Choices: Voices of experience – ECP Launch new report Unequal Choices, published by End Child Poverty in association with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation chronicles the views of families in poverty across the United Kingdom. ECP is urging the Government to listen to the views of families in poverty as an essential part of finding the solution to enable the UK to reach its target of ending child poverty by 2020.
13 May 2006 ECP letter in the Guardian in response to article published on Friday 12th May, see link for further details http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1773146,00.html
10 May 2006 End Child Poverty calls for all Government Departments to follow today's commitment from the DWP Child poverty is the number 1 priority for the DWP, said John Hutton MP today, that’s brilliant but don’t go it alone says the End Child Poverty Campaign.
11 April 2006 Campaigners welcome Tory pledge on child poverty Writing in the Guardian Oliver Letwin, the Chairman of the Conservative Policy Review, says: “Today, I can confirm that David Cameron’s Conservatives are now committed to the Government’s aspiration of ending child poverty by 2020.”
9 March 2006 Child poverty target: campaigners disappointed but Ministers urged to make faster progress Campaign groups have called on Ministers to make much more progress in tackling child poverty after figures published today showed the Government fell short of its target to cut child poverty by a quarter between 1998/99 and 2004/05.
9 February 2006 Children write in protest against poverty Hundreds of school children have joined the Poet Laureate and leading charities Shelter and End Child Poverty to create a unique anthology published to protest against the devastating impact of bad housing and poverty on children in Britain.
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