Hundreds demand an end to child poverty
Hundreds marched through central London yesterday calling on the government to end child poverty.
The 'Keep the Promise' march, was organised by the Campaign to End Child Poverty, a coalition of 120 organisations, and included many children who gathered at Millbank before marching to Trafalgar Square for a rally.
Before the march, representatives from the group met Gordon Brown at Downing Street. After the meeting he repeated a pledge to impose a legal duty on government to eradicate child poverty by 2020.
The coalition's report last week said more than one third of UK children live in low-income families or in poverty. Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who attended the rally, said that was 'shameful'. The campaign defines poverty as when a family has £10 per person per day or less to live on. read
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