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BBC1 Newsround highlights the problems of child poverty in this excellent interactive website for children.

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Newsround recently launched this special website, which investigates child poverty in the UK; It demonstrates the variety of current experiences of children in the UK by enabling 5 young people to narrate their stories over a series of animations.

The website is one of Newsround’s most popular sites ever; it engages children in further debate around child poverty, with a quiz and also a interactive section, including how would you splash your cash, to highlight budgeting choices for families on a low income.

The site questions who is responsible for the solutions; highlights how to cope with difficult situations such as bullying or temporary accommodation and also offers a simple opportunity for viewers to vote asking is the Government doing enough to end child poverty by 2020?

So get on there quick and register your opinion!

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Church Action on Poverty is a national ecumenical Christian social justice charity, committed to tackling poverty in the UK. It works in partnership with churches and with people in poverty themselves to find solutions to poverty, locally, nationally and globally.