We designed this research to provide an up-to-date picture of what it means to be a single parent in the UK in 2023, and to see what has changed since we produced our last report...

New research report ‘The single parent debt trap’ published by Gingerbread and StepChange, the UK’s leading debt charity, reveals that single parents are more likely to be living with problem debt. The research also shows...

Summary Based on new research from the Learning and Work Institute and Gingerbread supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the report Tackling single parent poverty after the Coronavirus explores the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on...

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 This report looks at single parents’ finances against a backdrop of austerity, and is the last from our ‘Paying the Price’ project. The findings show that, despite record high single parent employment, many single parents face...

Key findings The report found single parents affected by three main issues: Risk of debt: Most single parents are struggling, with many forced to borrow to make ends meet Work isn’t enough: Working single parents struggling as much...