End Child Poverty coalition was set up in 2001 by a group of UK children's charities, social justice groups, faith-groups, trade unions and others concerned about what they considered the unacceptably high levels of child poverty in the UK.
It was established as a charity in 2003 with a single goal - to eradicate child poverty in the United Kingdom.
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Famous quotes containing the words child and/or poverty:
“When a child stays needy until he is fifty
oh mother-eye, oh mother-eye, crush me in
the parent is as strong as a telephone pole.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)