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• Government plans will compromise children’s best interests, say family charities

  06 February 2012

  Gingerbread and Family & Parenting Institute welcome the government’s reaffirmation that the welfare of the child should remain the paramount consideration in the family justice system. However, it is deeply troubling that in its response to the Family Justice Review the government lays out plans to introduce legislation which will, in effect, undermine this principle by inserting an additional statement in law.
• Courts must retain focus on best interests of the child

  03 February 2012

  Reports in today’s papers indicate that, in its response to the Family Justice Review final report to be published on Monday 6 February, the government will set up a ministerial working group tasked with amending legislation (as laid out in the 1989 Children Act) around contact arrangements between children and their parents after separation.
• Hammer blow for single parents as government overturns unprecedented defeat by the Lords

  02 February 2012

  On 1 February, the House of Commons voted to overturn the Lords amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill which was intended to prevent single parents being charged for child maintenance services, where they have no alternative but to use the statutory system to get financial support from the other parent for their child.
• Further defeat looms for the Government on child maintenance charges

  24 January 2012

  On Wednesday 25 January, the last day of the Welfare Reform Bill’s Report Stage, the Lords will turn its attention to the Government’s child maintenance proposals – where another government defeat is threatened.
• Government child maintenance charging plans under fire

  20 January 2012

  Plans to charge single parents to use the future CSA, including up to 12% of any maintenance collected by the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission are set to be challenged by a senior Conservative Peer next week on the final day of the Welfare Reform Bill’s Report Stage.
• Child poverty map shows poor families need a break in the Budget

  10 January 2012

  As new research reveals up to half of the children in some areas live in poverty, Gingerbread has urged the Chancellor to use his March Budget to reverse some of his most damaging cuts to family finances.
• Fuel poverty - half of working single parents are affected

  04 January 2012

  Gingerbread has joined calls for renewed action on fuel poverty, as Save the Children publishes a report uncovering the impact of unaffordable energy on children’s health.
• Single parents worst hit by taxes and cuts

  04 January 2012

  New research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that single parents will be among those hit hardest by changes to tax and benefits policy over the next four years.
• Tax breaks for married couples

  19 December 2011

  Our response to comments made by the Deputy Prime Minister that the idea of a married tax break is wrong and would not work
• Tax credit raid will increase child poverty and discourage work

  29 November 2011

  In response to the announcement in today’s Autumn Statement that most elements of working tax credit will be frozen next year, and that the planned above inflation increase in child tax credit of £110 in 2012-2013 will no longer go ahead, Gingerbread warned that the move would increase child poverty and undermine work incentives.