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17 September 2009
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National single parents’ charity Gingerbread welcomes proposals in today’s Centre for Social Justice report Dynamic Benefits, Towards Welfare that Works which would give more support to single parents in part-time jobs.
Chief Executive of the charity Fiona Weir said:
”The latest employment figures show that more and more single parents are moving into work, but there’s still barriers for those who want to work in short- hours jobs and these proposals would help break those down.
“We’re delighted that the report recognises that the route to help more parents into work isn’t to impose tighter benefit conditions, but to do more to make work pay.
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“Benefit simplification is never easy because people’s lives are complex; we need to make sure that there is support for those who can’t work as well as those who can. But we welcome the ambition of this report to do more to help the lowest paid single parents.”
Notes to editors:
The report rejects tighter benefit conditions as a route to get people back to work: “For many, the answer to unsustainable welfare bills is to introduce ever tighter rules for benefits, and to cut generosity for some claimants. However, this approach has never worked.” (page 3, Executive Summary).
Gingerbread press contact: Jane Ahrends 020 7428 5416 or 0788 1951138
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