Previous policy and research work

This page lists Gingerbread's older research and policy work in chronological order. Much of this is still relevant and useful but has been moved to this 'archive' page to keep the main pages free from clutter.

Please note that many of these documents date from pre-2009 when we were known as One Parent Families|Gingerbread or just as One Parent Families.

A response to Tax Credits: Improving Delivery and Choice  (May 2008)

Employment, Opportunity and Skills - where next?(May 2008) 

Response to Commission on Social Mobility consultation (May 2008 )

Budget submission 2008: Charity calls on Chancellor for action on Child Poverty (February 2008)

Lone parents, employment and poverty in London: A response to the proposals from the London Skills and Employment Board (January 2008)

Sustainable employment and skills - Questions arising from Opportunity, Employment and Progression: making skills work (January 2008)

'In work, better off': A Response to the Green Paper from Gingerbread (October 2007)

Research shows way to help 100,000 single parents into work (October 2007)

Pre budget report: tackling child poverty (October 2007)

Time to talk: A response from One Parent Families|Gingerbread (October 2007)

Lone parents and employment: Note of a seminar held on 19 September 2007 (September 2007)

Submission to the work and pensions select committee's enquiry into child poverty (September 2007)

A Response to the proposals in ‘Breakthrough Britain’ (July 2007)

Children's contact after separation; factors associated with contact, changes in contact, and the parents who become non-resident (July 2007)

Move to the Jobseekers’ Allowance regime for lone parents whose youngest child is aged 12 would be wrong (April 2007)

Reform of the Social Fund (April 2007)

Work care and social inclusion; lone motherhood under New Labour (April 2007)

Children First - tackling poverty in one-parent families (January 2007)

Marks & Start - Parents Returning to Work: A Qualitative Report by Taryn Ferris (January 2007)

Caring for a child with additional needs - seminar discussion (November 2006 )

The Disabled Child Project: Evaluation Report Summary (November 2006)

Child Support: Lessons from abroad. Seminar report. (May 2006)

We held a series of seminars on child support, including one looking at lessons from abroad.

Mutual obligation for Australian parents in receipt of income support (January 2006)

Knowledge and awareness of the tax credit system among recipients (February 2005)

The advice needs of lone parents (April 2004)