Single parents today In the UK: There are around 1.8 million single parents – they make up nearly a quarter of families with dependent children (i) Around one per cent of single parents are teenagers (ii) Around 90 per...

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References for Single Parents Today and Then and Now i. ONS (2017) Families and households, 2017. Table 1. ii. Gingerbread analysis of Labour Force Survey (April-June 2018). iii. See reference i. iv. See reference i. Statistics last updated February 2019

Summary This report profiles single parents today, to see how life has changed for the one in four families headed by a single parent in the UK. While huge progress has been made over the past 100...

Key findings Among the key findings about single parents today: Nearly seven in ten (68 per cent) single parents are now in work – two decades ago the majority of single parents were not in work Until 2008,...

This report profiles single parents today, to see how life has changed for the one in four families headed by a single parent in the UK. 

Summary The government’s draft strategy has welcome proposals, but lacks strategic intent. There are signs that the Department for Work and Pensions is listening to concerns that Gingerbread has raised about loopholes which allow some parents...

Key findings Compliance The strategy ignores whether charges and the use of Direct Pay are really encouraging ‘collaboration’ and ‘compliance’ Further enforcement powers are welcome but, to achieve real impact, the DWP must ensure more rigorous use of...

Summary In-depth case studies illustrating the loopholes that allow child maintenance avoidance – where paying parents are able to minimise the amount of child support they’re requested to pay. The report shows how rules – and...

Key findings Reforms under the CMS mean the system is cheap to administer, but fail children Parents are left in the dark about their options, meaning many give up on a fair assessment The DWP passes the buck...

Summary Gingerbread, in partnership with NatCen and Bryson Purdon Social Research, looked at child maintenance arrangements among low income single parent families (those receiving out-of-work benefits in 2012) – assessing their impact, longevity and likely impact...

Key findings In 2012, child maintenance lifted one in five single parents on the lowest incomes who received child maintenance out of poverty Before changes to allow receiving parents to keep their child maintenance, rather than treat...