We’ve launched our Action Toolkit, written for young people, by young people

We are excited to announce that today (24th June 2022) we have launched our Action Toolkit. This aims to encourage young people to understand the root causes of child poverty – and develop campaigning solutions to address these. You can download the whole toolkit, or individual sessions here: www.endchildpoverty.org.uk/Action-Toolkit Government data shows that across the […]

WE’RE LOOKING FOR ECP YOUTH AMBASSADORS!

Since September 2020, ECP has been working with a group of children and young people who have shared their experiences of poverty and captured its impact on our Young people talk poverty page (more to follow in the coming months). To celebrate what other young people are doing around the UK to challenge child poverty, […]

DRAMATIC RISE IN CHILD POVERTY IN NORTH EAST ENGLAND IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS SHOWS THE SCALE OF THE ‘LEVELLING UP’ CHALLENGE

Even before the pandemic, 4.3 million children were living in poverty, up 200,000 from the previous year – and up 500,000 over the past five years. North East England shows the greatest growth in child poverty over the past five years and has risen by a third, taking it from below the UK average to […]