End Child Poverty coalition was set up in 2001 by a group of UK children's charities, social justice groups, faith-groups, trade unions and others concerned about what they considered the unacceptably high levels of child poverty in the UK.
[2] The coalition involves children, young people, parents and professionals with experience and knowledge of poverty in a wide range of activities, such as awareness raising, campaigning and lobbying.
The event engaged senior politicians, policy makers and opinion formers in the media and public life and grassroots anti-poverty/civil society groups from across the United Kingdom.
The Youth Ambassador scheme was developed to ensure that the voices and experience of young people was included in the work of the Coalition.
[5] The scrapping of the Two-child policy was front and centre of the 2024 United Kingdom general election campaign.