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Read the latest news and views on Gingerbread’s work and the issues affecting single parent families today.

The Single Parent Employment Challenge: What More Can The Government Do To Help?

12th Nov 2021

The Single Parent Employment Challenge It was therefore timely that a week on from an Autumn Budget that did little to improve the lot of these single parent households, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Single...

Research by Gingerbread and other organisations have shown that the end of furlough, the cut to the £20 uplift in Universal Credit (UC), and insecure work continues to put immense pressure on millions of single parent households across the country.

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The Linbury Trust awards £150,000 grant to Gingerbread’s free expert helpline for single parents

10th Jun 2021

Gingerbread is delighted to announce that we’ve received a generous grant of £150,000 over three years from the Linbury Trust towards our free, expert advice and information services for single parents. The Linbury Trust is a...

Jo Hardy, Gingerbread’s Head of Services, said, “Our expert helpline advisers work flat-out to answer calls from single parents, many of whom have no one else to turn to for support and may be struggling...

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