Council 8 May, 2008

Agenda Motion

Campaign to End Child Poverty

Cllr David Speirs on behalf of the Labour Group to move the following:

That this Council:

1 Supports both the goal of the Campaign to End Child Poverty, which is to eradicate child poverty, and the aims which are to:

• Inform the public about the causes and effects of child poverty;
  
• Forge a commitment between and across the public, private and voluntary sectors to end child poverty by 2020;
  
• Promote the case for ending child poverty by 2020 with this and every future Government;

2 Agrees, therefore, to become a member of the Campaign to End Child Poverty at a cost of £15 per year;

3 Asks the Member Champion for Children and the Children and Young People O&S Panel to consider prioritising the End Child Poverty agenda in future workplans; and

4 Asks decision-makers in the Council to consider, when relevant, the impact on child poverty of their decisions.

Note: more information about End Child Poverty can be found on the campaign website at: www.endchildpoverty.org.uk