Next Steps Project
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...
News and views
Read the latest news and views on Gingerbread’s work and the issues affecting single parent families today.
Wellbeing of children not negatively affected by being in a single parent family
Posted 2 January 2019
The report looks at the wellbeing of more than 27,800 households with children, understood as ‘life satisfaction,’ ‘feelings about their family’ and ‘the quality of relationships with peers.’ The report finds no evidence that children...
Centenary report shows more single parents working, yet poverty still rising
Posted 21 February 2018
Our new report, One in four: single parent families in the UK, has been released to mark 100 years of Gingerbread’s work. In the centenary report, we profile single parents in the UK today and how...
Gingerbread queries “muddled thinking” behind new government programme
Posted 4 April 2017
Gingerbread’s response to the news that controversial Troubled Families programme has received additional funding The government has today announced further funding for the Troubled Families programme, originally launched in 2012. The focus of the new phase...