How can Labour members in Walthamstow lead the fight against child poverty on our streets?

I recently took part in a podcast about the question of community and political engagement and talked about how the Labour party must revalue the role of members and activists. You can hear the whole interview here on Andy Howell's blog. Local CLP members know I don't just talk about the role Labour can play campaigning for change; I also put my words into practise. In May I organised an event in Walthamstow to bring together activists and Labour supporters to ask how we can tackle child poverty in our area. I wrote an article about this for the national Labour journal Progress to share our experience and the lessons we learned. We got some really good ideas from the discussion about how to help children and their families in our constituency and I'm now working with others in the CLP and the local area to take them forward. see the role of the MP as being someone who makes things happen like this, bringing people together to share ideas and plan a course of action to achieve our shared ambitions like ending child poverty on our streets. Let me know what you think.