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New report: The Single Parent Debt Trap
Posted 8 February 2021
New report shows single parents more likely to experience problem debt and to live in persistent poverty. Many forced to go without food to make repayments.
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Read the latest news on Gingerbread’s work and the issues affecting single parent families today.
Gingerbread chosen as Charity of the Year by the new Camden Mayor, Councillor Sabrina Francis
Posted 5 May 2021
We are so pleased to welcome the newly inaugurated Camden Mayor – and delighted to have been chosen as Councillor Sabrina Francis’ Charity of the Year! We’ve long been based in the borough, with our...
Statement: Gingerbread is committed to challenging inequality in all forms.
Posted 22 April 2021
There are single parents in all walks of life. Just as every single parent family is unique, so are their single parenting journeys. It’s damaging to reinforce lazy stereotypes. Instead, decision-makers need to take time to understand how...
Introducing Ferne McCann for the Gingerbread Single Parents’ Day 2021 appeal!
Posted 16 March 2021
We’re delighted that the model, television personality and presenter – well known for her support of parenting and children’s charities – is involved in this year’s appeal. Having been a single parent since her now three-year-old...Since Single Parents’ Day 2020 – just two days before the UK went into its first lockdown – single parents across the country have been sole breadwinner, teacher, parent and playmate to their child/ren, twenty-four-seven,...
New report: The Single Parent Debt Trap
Posted 8 February 2021
Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families, and StepChange, the UK’s leading debt charity, are today publishing a new report which shows the UK’s 2 million single parents are more likely than any other sector...
Gingerbread Welcomes New Chair and Vice Chair to its Board of Trustees
Posted 10 December 2020
Gingerbread, the leading national charity working with single parent families, is delighted to welcome Simon Bentley in his role as Chair of the Board of Trustees. Simon replaces Gingerbread’s Interim Chair, Fran Parry. Simon brings a...
Gingerbread and Surviving Economic Abuse respond to latest figures on CMS during Covid-19 pandemic
Posted 1 October 2020
Figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) released yesterday highlights the impact of Covid-19 on the Child Maintenance Service (CMS). The data shows: An increase in compliance on CMS payments – albeit, driven entirely...
New Gingerbread report finds single parents with pre-school children in London face distinct challenges to job-seeking under Universal Credit
Posted 29 September 2020
A new report published today by Gingerbread, the leading charity supporting single parent families, finds single parents with pre-school aged children in London face particular barriers to job-seeking under Universal Credit. This group of single...
Data released today from Mumsnet and Gingerbread show stark findings on CMS
Posted 17 September 2020
Findings of a new survey released today by Mumsnet and Gingerbread on the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) show: 86% say the CMS has allowed their ex to financially control or abuse them post-separation Nine out of ten...
Gingerbread supports legal action against the DWP to address critical failings of the Child Maintenance Service
Posted 24 June 2020
Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families, is partnering with Mumsnet and the Good Law Project (GLP) to support four women who have sent a Letter Before Claim to notify the Department for Work and...
Gingerbread calls on the Government to support single parents where child maintenance payments are stopped or reduced
Posted 9 April 2020
Gingerbread, the charity that supports single parent families, is aware that due to the COVID-19 crisis the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will be allowing parents who pay child maintenance to stop or reduce...