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New Data Shows Cost-of-living Crisis Has Meant Over a Quarter of Single Parent Families Have Already Gone Without Food
Posted 21 March 2022
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Read the latest news and views on Gingerbread’s work and the issues affecting single parent families today.
The Single Parent Employment Challenge – urgent action is needed to prevent single parents being left behind
Posted 10 March 2022
by Laura Dewar Policy and Research Lead Gingerbread today published the interim findings of The Single Parent Employment Challenge research report, looking at job loss and job seeking for single parents after the pandemic. The interim report...
Generation: You Employed to offer support for single parents looking at a career in tech
Posted 3 August 2022
Generation: You Employed is proud to be partnering with Gingerbread to support single parents and carers into the tech sector through our unique skills boot-camps. Generation is a global charity whose mission is to prepare, place...
Changes to Gingerbread Services
Posted 29 July 2022
As the impact of the Cost of Living crisis continues to emerge in all areas of life, here at Gingerbread we have not been immune from increasing financial pressures. After funding cuts earlier in the year,...
“The new leader must prove to single parents that they will not be forgotten, left behind or discriminated against”
Posted 7 July 2022
by Victoria Benson, Gingerbread CEO At a time when the country is already reeling from soaring living costs and record inflation levels, today’s news of Boris Johnson’s resignation has only served to reinforce the uncertainty felt...
Next Steps Project
Posted 10 June 2022
Next Steps is an exciting new project funded by City Bridge Trust that Gingerbread is rolling out in London, until March 2025. The project is running in Camden and Islington right now and next year we...
“The cost of living crisis is causing hunger, hardship and mental anguish for too many single parent families”
Posted 18 May 2022
by Victoria Benson, CEO of Gingerbread We are experiencing the biggest cost-of-living shock since the 1970s. For any household, the costs of housing, food and fuel are big, but for single parents they are huge. So far,...
NHS Covid-19 vaccine rolls out to five million 5-11 year-olds
Posted 4 April 2022
Parents and carers of 5 to 11 year olds are now able to book a Covid-19 vaccine for their children after the NHS vaccine programme expanded its service. While children who are at increased risk from...
New Data Shows Cost-of-living Crisis Has Meant Over a Quarter of Single Parent Families Have Already Gone Without Food
Posted 21 March 2022
New data exposes the devasting impact of the cost-of-living crisis on single parent families. Worryingly, it also reveals things are set to get worse for many of the UK’s nearly two million single parent households...
APPG event – Single Parents & The Cost of Living
Posted 16 March 2022
At Gingerbread, we are hearing from many single parents who have big concerns about soaring food and fuel costs and the ability of their budgets to stretch even further. In fact, Gingerbread’s helpline has seen...
Fundamental flaws in the Child Maintenance Service leave parents high and dry
Posted 3 March 2022
by Ceri Smith, Head of Policy and Campaigns The National Audit Office (NAO) has today published a landmark report into the Child Maintenance Service. It paints a stark picture of how the CMS simply isn’t working...
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