Ending child poverty
In the UK today, 3.8 million children are living in poverty, meaning they are twice as likely to be homeless or trapped in bad housing.
Shelter and over 90 other organisations have joined forces with the Campaign to End Child Poverty. Together, we aim to pressurise the Government to honour its pledge to end child poverty by the year 2020, and to halve it by 2010.
Bad housing is a key part of poverty
Squalid conditions and unaffordable housing costs drive child poverty, trapping children in a lifelong cycle of deprivation. A decent, affordable home offers a route out of poverty.
If the Government is serious about ending child poverty by 2020, they must ensure a quarter to a third of the recently promised three million new homes are for social renting.
Poverty and bad housing explained
The Campaign to End Child Poverty and Shelter have united to produced a briefing on the impact that poverty and bad housing have on children's lives, and what we believe the Government needs to do. Download a copy of the joint briefing here.
Join End Child Poverty's virtual march
Play your part in the Campaign to End Child Poverty by adding your name to their online petition. In doing so, you'll join the tens of thousands who marched through Westminster to Trafalgar Square on 4 October 2008 to demand the Prime Minister provides a better future for all our children.
Get involved and send your message to the Prime Minister now
