Keep the Promise - the UK's biggest event to end child poverty
Trafalgar Square
October 4th 1-3pm
www.endchildpoverty.org.uk/promise

Child poverty figures increase -The annual HBAI figures (2006/07) released on 10 June 2008, indicate that child poverty on a UK level has increased has risen for a second year. Across the UK, the number of children living in poverty rose by 100,000 in 2006-2007 to 2.9 million before housing costs.

NGO Manifesto for the National Assembly elections on 3 May 2007 - A group of children's voluntary organisations have produced a manifesto of which the poverty section can be downloaded here. The End Child Poverty Network Cymru supports the aims and recommendations included in the manifesto.

UN Eradication of Poverty Day, 17 October 2006 - Cost of Education
Parents living on low incomes in Wales are struggling to meet increasing and diverse "hidden" costs of sending their children to school, according to the End Child Poverty Network Cymru. Click here for the Briefing

Child Poverty Matters
On 30-31 August 2006 24 young people aged 13-16 years from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales went to a Child Poverty Matters event in Westminster to tell Ministers and leading figures in the field of child poverty what life was like in their communities. The End Child Poverty Network Cymru was involved in publicising this event and young people from Swansea Youth Forum attended the consultation. Click here for the Report. Some video footage of the event can also be viewed on YouTube.

Child Poverty in Wales - much work to be done Conference Report, August 2006

Unequal Choices
In April 2006, the ECPN Cymru organised a 'listening event' in Cardiff with young parents and young people to gather their views and solutions to many of the pressing problems associated with child poverty. Unequal Choices, published by End Child Poverty in association with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation chronicles the views of over 300 people who took part in events staged in Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, London, Liverpool and Sheffield. Click here for the report.