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...

Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families, and StepChange, the UK’s leading debt charity, are today publishing a new report which shows the UK’s 2 million single parents are more likely than any other sector...

New report shows single parents more likely to experience problem debt and to live in persistent poverty. Many forced to go without food to make repayments.

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...

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’s response to shocking new child poverty figures, with nearly half of children in single parents families in poverty Nearly a half (47 per cent) of children in single parent families now live in poverty, new...

Gingerbread’s Chief Executive, Rosie Ferguson, responds to a Spring Budget that does little to help single parent families In response to today’s budget statement Rosie Ferguson, Chief Executive of Gingerbread said: “Increases in taxation for the self-employed...

Gingerbread believes that the Autumn Statement does not adequately address the problems that single parents face Responding to the Autumn Statement, Gingerbread Director of Policy Dalia Ben-Galim said: “Today the Chancellor missed a crucial opportunity to make...

The End Child Poverty coalition releases new figures on child poverty in the UK, arguing that welfare cuts have exacerbated the problem The End Child Poverty coalition has today published new figures providing a new Child...