Single Parents in 2023
Posted 21 March 2023
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...
Published on 19 May 2021
Watch the launch webinar below, with single parent Andrea, researchers Laura Dewar and Liz Clery, Gingerbread CEO, Victoria Benson, and chaired by Institute for Employment Studies Director, Tony Wilson.
Research published by Gingerbread and the Institute for Employment Studies highlights the unique challenges faced by working single parents as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and traces how these have evolved over time. As the country opens up following the restrictions it is vital that the government provides better support to single parents, in order to mitigate the remaining challenges facing them as a result of the pandemic.
The research involved successive interviews with 40 (then 33) working single parents in the summer of 2020 and winter of 2021 and an analysis of Labour Force Survey data.
As the UK emerges from the third lockdown, three significant challenges remain for single parent families:
The report sets out a range of recommendations for government and others to address these challenges. These recommendations focus on: