As one of the founding members of ECP, our campaigning priority over the last 10 years has been to keep the government to its promise to halve child poverty by 2010. Although that goal will be missed, the success of ECP must not be underestimated - half a million children out of poverty, poverty on the agenda of all three main parties, and a Child Poverty Bill enshrining the 2020 target into law.
The campaign against the social injustice of child poverty has been and will remain a top priority for Barnardo's. We will redouble our efforts to keep child poverty on the political and public agenda.
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