UK CHILD POVERTY: Help keep up the pressure to keep the promise

In the UK, 1.4 million children live in severe poverty. That means their families survive on an average of £7,000 a year after housing costs (for a couple with one child). With £7,000 a year a family has only £19 a day to cover fuel and other bills, food, clothes, washing, transport, activities for children and everything else.

What’s the government doing about UK poverty?
Alistair Darling's first budget saw a recommitment to halving child poverty by 2010 and ending it by 2020. This is their promise. We want them to keep it.

Save the Children is calling on the government to give serious consideration to seasonal grants. These payments help impoverished families through the most expensive and difficult times of the year.

1. We need your voice to remind the Chancellor of his promise.

2. The promise to eradicate child poverty in Britain by 2020

3. Campaign with us - join here http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/secure/50_73.htm