Policy & campaigns
We use our campaigns, research, and policy work to help amplify the voices and concerns of single parent families to a wider audience. We look at how single parent families are impacted by government policy and we challenge government to make these policies fairer to single parent families.
There are six main areas we focus on: childcare, child maintenance, employment and skills, families and relationships, living standards and poverty, and welfare reform. We conduct and publish key research relating to these topics each year and campaign to effect change with and for single parents.


Childcare
Childcare is important for both children’s development and parents’ employment. For single parents, childcare is particularly important to help make...
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General Election 2019
As the UK prepares to vote on 12 December 2019, Gingerbread is calling on single parents to make their votes...
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Our campaigns
Together with single parents, we challenge social stigma, and influence government policy to ensure single parent families receive a fair...
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Policy & research publications
Read all of Gingerbread's policy publications, including research reports, consultation responses and briefing papers.
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Child maintenance
A child has a legal right to be supported financially by both their parents, and the government must help parents...
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Employment and skills
Almost all single parents are in work or want to work. Single parent employment is at a record high, particularly...
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Families and relationships
Single parent families often deal with many challenges. Children in single parent families face around twice the risk of poverty...
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Living standards and poverty
Single parents’ finances are often tight. Single parent families face a particularly high risk of poverty compared with other households....
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Welfare reform
Benefits are a lifeline for many single parents, whether in work or not. Barriers to entering and progressing in work,...
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Single Parents’ Day – 21 March 2020
On March 21st the UK celebrates national #SingleParentsDay. There are around 2 million single parents across the UK – and...
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