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SEPTEMBER 2008
Dear Colleague
Welcome to the latest News from CPAG, keeping you updated on our campaigns, policy work and other activities.
Campaigns news
New CPAG education campaign launched
CPAG has launched 2 skint 4 school, a new campaign focussed on child poverty and education.
It is the 1 in 3 children living below the poverty line who are the most likely to fail at school. This is because they face so many disadvantages to learning, both inside and outside the classroom, compared to their better off classmates.
Please visit the campaign website where you can learn more about the campaign and how you can help. The website will also launch our teachers survey in October.
QUICK ACTION: On the 2 skint 4 school website please visit the 'what you can do' section where you can email your MP to ask their support for the campaign.
Keep the Promise: Oct 4th, Trafalgar Square
CPAG has been helping organise the Keep the Promise rally, which will take place on Saturday 4 October in Trafalgar Square. There will be a march before the rally.
Keep the Promise will make history as the biggest ever event to end child poverty in the UK. But it is important that it also makes history by persuading the government and the opposition parties to keep their commitment to end child poverty.
It is vital that we have as many supporters in the square as possible to make a powerful public statement - so please mark the date in your diary!
Key info for Oct 4th:
11.30am onwards: Assemble on Millbank, near Lambeth Bridge (look out for the big CPAG banner for our supporters to congregate at!).
12.30pm March through Westminster to Trafalgar Square.
2pm Family fun, speakers and Listen up, Downing St! action in Trafalgar Square.
Sign up at www.endchildpoverty.org.uk/promise
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Other news
Welfare reform
The Government has published the third Welfare Reform Green Paper in three years! A new Welfare Reform Bill is now expected later this year.
The paper, No one written off can be found here.
CPAG has strong concerns about the paper's proposals and the bill that will follow. There are plans for further increases in conditionality and sanctions, particularly for line parents and the long term unemployed. The government has continuously failed to provide a strong case for the efficacy of sanctions, yet its own research has shown that they can worsen the health of claimants.
CPAG will be responding to the consultation and proposing amendments to the bill in the autumn.
New child poverty toolkit for local government
Child Poverty Action Group has produced a toolkit for local authorities to help them produce effective strategies to address child poverty in their area.
The toolkit was produced jointly with Inclusion and is a resource for those authorities that have chosen child poverty as a strategic priority or adopted indicators, such as on educational attaintment, relate to child poverty.
You can find the toolkit here: www.childpovertytoolkit.org.uk
New edition of Fuel Rights Handbook published
 CPAG has published the new edition of the Fuel Rights Handbook. With domestic energy bills rising steeply more and more households are being pushed into fuel poverty this is an essential tool for helping low income families limit the impact of fuel costs.
You can order a copy of the handbook and other CPAG publications here.
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