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Citizens Advice service volunteers and staff came out to march in central London to end child poverty.

Together with 10,000 people from organisations such as, Save the Children UK, Barnardos and Oxfam, Citizens Advice calls on the government to keep its promise to halve child poverty by 2010 and end it by 2020.

This is child poverty

One in three children in Britain live in poverty today. The government has promised to halve child poverty by 2010 and as a member of the End child poverty coalition, Citizens Advice aims to keep them to their promise.

As part of Citizens Advice End child poverty campaign we asked parents who find it difficult to make their money last how this affects their children. This is child poverty gives a new insight into the financial, emotional and physical impact of poverty on children in modern Britain. The report and video give a voice to some of the families behind the statistics.

• This is child poverty report

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