Citizens Advice

The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free, independent and confidential advice, and by influencing policymakers.

Every Citizens Advice Bureau is a registered charity reliant on trained volunteers and funds to provide these vital services for local communities.

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End child poverty campaign

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(Welsh version of End child poverty campaign)

Through thick and thin

Citizens Advice supports a new call for continued investment in children and families during the recession. The End Child Poverty coalition’s new report (New window) Through Thick and Thin shows how job losses have affected child poverty and how more needs to be done to tackle in-work poverty.

End Child Poverty's (New window) Recession recovery package shows five important steps to supporting families both in and out of work.

Citizens Advice is also calling for wider improvements to the welfare benefits system as part of our (New window) Fair welfare campaign.

March to end child poverty

Citizens Advice service on end child poverty march      

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.

     

Watch real people tell their stories.

       

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