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• At least £1million owed in child maintenance in every MP’s constituency in the UK

  09 May 2012

  New figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions [1] show that, in each one of the 650 parliamentary constituencies (1), child maintenance arrears owed to parents with main care of children is now at least £1million, rising to over £7 million in Milton Keynes South, £6,565,000 in Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford and £6,288,000 in Great Grimsby.
• Future CSA will punish children when parents refuse to pay

  27 April 2012

  Responding to the publication by the DWP of new quarterly performance data from the Child Support Agency [1], Fiona Weir, Chief Executive of Gingerbread, said: While Gingerbread supports a renewed focus on taking all enforcement measures necessary to collect child maintenance, the new collection charges will punish the children whose parents refuse to pay. How can this be fair?”
• Premature benefit change hangs 124,000 single parents with young children out to dry

  27 March 2012

  This week, 124,000 single parents whose youngest child is five and who are not currently in work will receive letters telling them that they will be required to find a job, or face cuts to benefits.
• Forgotten families

  22 March 2012

  Gingerbread's response to the budget announcements on Wednesday 21st March.
• Separating fact from fiction on Mother’s Day: breaking the stereotypes of the UK's single parents

  16 March 2012

  To celebrate the fantastic job done by single mums this Mother’s Day, Gingerbread is launching a myth-buster to show the reality of single parent life in 2012.
• Children will pay the price for inefficiency of statutory child maintenance service

  29 February 2012

  Gingerbread is shocked by today’s National Audit Office report ‘Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Cost Reduction' which reveals that charging single parents with children to use the future statutory maintenance scheme has become a central part of the Commission's plans to meet savings targets.
• Childcare costs putting the squeeze on working single parents

  27 February 2012

  Rising childcare costs combined with a reducation in tax credit support are meaning it is increasingly difficult to make work pay - especially for single parents. Gingerbread's chief executive, Fiona Weir, responds to the Daycare Trust's annual childcare costs survey.
• 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.