(Photograph) - Children from Shaftesbury Park School in Battersea, London, met Chancellor Gordon Brown at 11 Downing Street on Budget day last week on behalf of the End Child Poverty Campaign, founded by 12 major family charities, to urge him to do more to lift children out of poverty. Official figures published last week showed almost four million children living in poverty in the UK. The children's headteacher, Joyce Walker, said, 'Ending child poverty would improve children's educational chances in one fell swoop. Inadequate food and poor housing cause sickness and tiredness and missed days. Schools need a good base on which to work; poverty doesn't provide that.'
(Photograph) - Children from Shaftesbury Park School in Battersea, London, met Chancellor Gordon Brown at 11 Downing Street on Budget day last week on behalf of the End Child Poverty Campaign, founded by 12 major family charities, to urge him to do more to lift children out of poverty. Official figures published last week showed almost four million children living in poverty in the UK.
The children's headteacher, Joyce Walker, said, 'Ending child poverty would improve children's educational chances in one fell swoop. Inadequate food and poor housing cause sickness and tiredness and missed days. Schools need a good base on which to work; poverty doesn't provide that.'
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