All aboard to end child poverty

Jasmine Whitbread, Chief Executive of Save the Children, and Leon Daniells Commercial Director of First UK Bus, with young people wearing masks of Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer,  call on the government to stop poverty and put children first.

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Students pose with the buses outside the Treasury on Whitehall.

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Young people meet Jane Kennedy MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, to hand in a petition signed by supporters of the campaign to end child poverty in the UK. They delivered more than 3,000 action cards and petitions calling on the government to keep their promise to end child poverty and to invest £4 billion by 2010.

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Young people from Envision a charity that encourages young people to participate in social and environmental projects attended the launch of a new book called Why Money Matters in the House of Commons. The book, published by Save the Children as part of the Campaign to End Child Poverty, includes contributions from the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP (pictured) and TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber. Why Money Matters reveals how the government is set to break its promise to halve child poverty by 2010 unless it invests significant cash now. It describes the crippling effects of poverty on children in the UK, and presents fresh evidence on how government investment can improve the lives of the poorest families.

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