Policy and research

The policy and research team work together to develop our knowledge and understanding of single parents' lives and the problems we face, and to influence Government to bring about change.

Within the policy and research team we:

•   Commission and undertake original research
•   Produce publications setting out key facts about single parents' lives
•   Respond to Government consultations
•   Meet with key decision makers within government to influence change
•   Campaign publicly on lone parent issues.

To contact us please email: policy@gingerbread.org.uk

Main areas of our policy and research work are:

mother and her children playing at the seaside

Response to consultation on the joint registration of births

Gingerbread calls for strategy to address childcare gaps

New Gingerbread research on single parents' incomes, spending, and money management.

Tax breaks for married parents would not be the best way to tackle child poverty

David Cameron addresses Gingerbread’s AGM

Single parents, equal families: family policy for the next decade. Read our press release and the report.

New Gingerbread research – single parents on Jobseeker's Allowance feel stigmatised, pressurised and unsupported

Policy Campaigns

Gingerbread campaigns on issues that are important for single parents: making work pay, child poverty, welfare reform, child maintenance, and support for parents and children when relationships end

Key facts about single parents

Policy and research

Family Policy

Employment and social security

Child Maintenance

Poverty


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