Gingerbread calls on newly elected regional mayors to back the ‘Upfront’ childcare deposit scheme The new regional mayors have been asked to commit to supporting single parent families to enter or return to work by backing...

New findings chime with Gingerbread’s analysis of problems in the child maintenance system Gingerbread welcomes the findings in the Work and Pensions select committee’s new report on the failings of the current child maintenance system. [1] The...

Gingerbread’s new report looks at the impact of the benefit sanctions regime on single parents The government is systematically underestimating the risk of sanctions to single parents, according to new research from Gingerbread. “On the rise: single...

Gingerbread’s response to the news that controversial Troubled Families programme has received additional funding The government has today announced further funding for the Troubled Families programme, originally launched in 2012. The focus of the new phase...

Gingerbread welcomes new report investigating the closure of body previously responsible for child maintenance Gingerbread welcomes the National Audit Office (NAO) report into the closure of the Child Support Agency, which confirms the concerns that single...

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 welcomes introduction of new childcare deposit scheme that will make it easier for single parents to enter work in London Gingerbread welcomed the introduction of a new childcare deposit scheme across all organisations in the Greater...

Gingerbread responds to findings of investigation into contract between HMRC and Concentrix, which failed to help single parents entitled to child maintenance The National Audit Office (NAO) report into the contract between HMRC and Concentrix is...

Rosie Ferguson, former Chief Executive of London Youth, has been appointed the new Chief Executive of Gingerbread Gingerbread is pleased to announce that Rosie Ferguson will join the organisation as Chief Executive on 15 February 2017. Rosie...