April 2009

Budget 2009

Gingerbread wrote to Alistair Darling, calling for child poverty to be a focus of the next Budget. You can read our letter below.  However, we were disappointed that the 2009 Budget did not do enough to lift more children out of poverty and help the Government meet their target of halving child poverty by 2010.

Read our response to the 2009 Budget here.

More about our campaigning work on child poverty here.