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End Child Poverty
NGSU is Supporting the Campaign to End Child Poverty
We are supporting the campaign to halve child poverty by 2010 by seeking to raise awareness of the campaign in NGSU publications and keeping members up to date with the latest campaign news and activity. National Executive Officier Russell Bradbury and Bill Blumsom, NGSU President, will to co-ordinating our activity with the campaign. You can contact Russell and Bill on 01295 710767 for more information.
The Campaign to End Child Poverty is made up of more than 90 children's charities, child welfare organisations, social justice groups, faith groups, trade unions and others concerned about the unacceptably high levels of child poverty in the UK. These groups have united because there is widespread concern that the Government will fail to reach its targets of halving child poverty by 2010 and eradicating it by 2020.
In order to meet its targets, the Government needs to take the following actions:
Halving child poverty by 2010
Ensure adequate incomes for families – By 2010, the Government needs to spend £4 billion on benefits and child tax credits.
Ensure an adequate home for every child– By 2010, the Government needs to ensure that 20,000 additional social rented homes per year have been built to lift 154,000 children out of bad housing.
Eradicating child poverty by 2020
To achieve the 2020 target of ending child poverty, the Government needs to redistribute more to the poorest families and invest more in the services that support them. In the long term, the Government must prioritise support to education and employment so that the life chances of children and young people from low-income families are radically improved. To achieve this, the Government must provide:
Decent work for all:
- Ensure that work pays through an increase in the minimum wage and in in-work benefits and tax credits.
- Make sure that parents are not trapped in poor quality jobs by investing more in help for the most disadvantaged to get, keep and progress in employment.
- Make sure that all parents can combine work and family life through the provision of a sufficient supply of high quality affordable, accessible childcare.
A good education for every child:
- Provide access to high quality early years provision for every child from a low-income family.
- Aim to close the gap between state and private school funding levels and ensure that new spending is geared towards schools in the poorest area or with the poorest intake.
- Ensure education works for all children by rolling out personalised learning agendas in schools to guarantee increased support, particularly for those from the poorest backgrounds.
In February the Campaign to End Child Poverty will be calling for the Chancellor to make his next budget, a budget to end child poverty.
Campaign Action:
Please sign the online petition to the Chancellor to demand this. Forward the link www.endchildpoverty.org....uk/action to your colleagues, friends and families.
Can you add the following text to all your personal emails for a month? "Your support is vital to the Campaign to End Child Poverty, join us know in asking the Chancellor to make the next budget, a budget to end child poverty, go to www.endchildpoverty.org....uk/action "