Summary Gingerbread, in partnership with NatCen and Bryson Purdon Social Research, looked at child maintenance arrangements among low income single parent families (those receiving out-of-work benefits in 2012) – assessing their impact, longevity and likely impact...

Key findings In 2012, child maintenance lifted one in five single parents on the lowest incomes who received child maintenance out of poverty Before changes to allow receiving parents to keep their child maintenance, rather than treat...

Summary This report, supported by the Nuffield Foundation, looked at how families manage the arrangements for children to spend time with their non-resident parents, and the kinds of difficulties which families encounter in these arrangements. The majority of...