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...

Gingerbread’s research shows that benefit sanctions are both ineffective and disproportionally affect single parents Responding to the National Audit Office report on sanctions, Gingerbread Research Officer Sumi Rabindrakumar said: “Our own research has found that single parents are...

Gingerbread believes that the Autumn Statement does not adequately address the problems that single parents face Responding to the Autumn Statement, Gingerbread Director of Policy Dalia Ben-Galim said: “Today the Chancellor missed a crucial opportunity to make...

The End Child Poverty coalition releases new figures on child poverty in the UK, arguing that welfare cuts have exacerbated the problem The End Child Poverty coalition has today published new figures providing a new Child...