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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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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...
Gingerbread calls on government and employers to support single parents during Covid-19 school closures
Posted 20 March 2020
As schools and nurseries across the country close in response to the Covid-19 outbreak, many single parents will be worried about the challenges ahead and the impact on their families. Gingerbread is calling on the...
New Gingerbread report highlights UK businesses missing out on single parent’s skills
Posted 11 February 2020
A report published today by Gingerbread, the charity that supports single parent families, reveals that UK businesses are missing out on valuable workplace skills due to structural barriers which limit opportunities for single parents to...
Gingerbread calls on the new government to tackle the poverty epidemic among single parent families
Posted 16 December 2019
As the new Conservative government is announced, Gingerbread calls for urgent action to reduce poverty among single parent families through policies that improve living standards for the 1 in 4 UK families headed by single...
