Aims and objectives of the Child Poverty Action Group

CPAG’s aims are to:

• Raise awareness of the causes, extent, nature and impact of poverty, and strategies for its eradication and prevention;
• Bring about positive policy changes for families with children in poverty;
• Enable those eligible for income maintenance to have access to their full entitlement.

To achieve its aims, CPAG’s current objectives, working where appropriate through effective partnerships and alliances with others, are to:

• Develop and promote policies which benefit low-income families and children
• identify, analyse and present evidence on child poverty
• lobby and campaign and build support for policy improvements in favour of low-income families and children

• Raise advisers’ knowledge and awareness of income maintenance so as to equip them to advise their clients and to maximise take-up
• provide specialist training to advisers
• provide second tier specialist advice to advisers
• provide published and online resources to advisers

• Secure by judicial decision the interpretation of social security, tax credits and related law to promote the rights of claimants, and secure fairness in the system to ensure that benefits provision is as widespread and generous as possible
• mount legal test cases

Download CPAG's corporate plan for 2010-2011 (182KB Word Doc).

To see the ten practical steps CPAG is calling for to end child poverty, see Ending Child Poverty: a manifesto for success