Document Topic: Living standards and poverty

Single parents in the UK: prevalence, characteristics and impact

20th Sep 2018

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

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One in four: a profile of single parents in the UK

21st Feb 2018

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. 

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Paying the Price: still ‘just about managing’?

21st Sep 2017

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...

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