Read the latest news and views on Gingerbread’s work and the issues affecting single parent families today.
Posted 4 October 2022
Gingerbread are currently in Birmingham to attend the 2022 Conservative Party Conference and encourage our political leaders to recognise the challenges that single parent families face and to prioritise the support they need. We’re here to...
Posted 3 August 2022
Generation: You Employed is proud to be partnering with Gingerbread to support single parents and carers into the tech sector through our unique skills boot-camps. Generation is a global charity whose mission is to prepare, place...
Posted 10 June 2022
Next Steps is an exciting new project funded by City Bridge Trust that Gingerbread is rolling out in London, until March 2025. The project is running in Camden and Islington right now and next year we...
Posted 10 March 2022
by Laura Dewar Policy and Research Lead Gingerbread today published the interim findings of The Single Parent Employment Challenge research report, looking at job loss and job seeking for single parents after the pandemic. The interim report...
Posted 25 October 2021
Gingerbread is the leading national charity working with single parent families. Our mission is to champion and enable single parent families to live secure, happy, and fulfilling lives. We advise, support and campaign with single...
Posted 26 May 2021
A new report published today by Gingerbread, the leading charity supporting single parent families, finds single parents with pre-school aged children in London face particular barriers to job-seeking under Universal Credit. This group of single...
Posted 19 May 2021
Watch the report launch webinar here – with single parent Andrea, researchers Laura Dewar and Liz Clery, Gingerbread CEO Victoria Benson and chaired by Institute for Employment Studies Director, Tony Wilson. A report published today by...
Posted 29 September 2020
A new report published today by Gingerbread, the leading charity supporting single parent families, finds single parents with pre-school aged children in London face particular barriers to job-seeking under Universal Credit. This group of single...
Posted 11 February 2020
A report published today by Gingerbread, the charity that supports single parent families, reveals that UK businesses are missing out on valuable workplace skills due to structural barriers which limit opportunities for single parents to...
Posted 16 December 2019
As the new Conservative government is announced, Gingerbread calls for urgent action to reduce poverty among single parent families through policies that improve living standards for the 1 in 4 UK families headed by single...
