About Us

The End Child Poverty Coalition is a partnership of eight national non-governmental organisations that have come together to achieve a common goal: end child poverty in Ireland.

The Coalition partners are:

Barnardos
Children’s Rights Alliance
Focus Ireland
National Youth Council of Ireland
OPEN - One Parent Exchange and Network
Pavee Point
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Start Strong

The Coalition works to promote the implementation of Government commitments to end child poverty, as outlined in policies and strategies including: Towards 2016: Ten Year National Social Partnership Framework Agreement 2006-2016; The National Action Plan for Social Inclusion 2007-2016; and Towards Recovery: Programme for a National Government 2011 - 2016.

Aims and Objectives

The Coalition's aim is simple; to end child poverty in Ireland. To do this the Coalition have 3 clear objectives to achieve this aim, by:

Raising public awareness to end child poverty
Monitoring public policy to end child poverty
Developing solutions to end child poverty