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Gingerbread appoints new Chief Executive
Posted 26 July 2019
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Read the latest news on Gingerbread’s work and the issues affecting single parent families today.
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...
Gingerbread welcome SSAC’s call for social security strategy for separated parents
Posted 23 October 2019
Joe Richardson, Research and Policy Officer at Gingerbread, responds: “We welcome the focus of the SSAC’s report, which looks at how to alleviate the financial, emotional and psychological hardships that separated parents and their children can...
Government U-turn on child maintenance avoidance is “welcome but not enough”
Posted 12 July 2018
The government’s new child maintenance strategy shows it is listening to the concerns raised by Gingerbread and single parents,[1] but still leaves question marks as to whether the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is fit for...Notes [1] Gingerbread’s response to the DWP’s consultation. [2] Child maintenance avoidance describes when a paying parent minimises their declared income, which is used to calculate maintenance owed, thereby paying far less than they can afford. [3] Parents...
Centenary report shows more single parents working, yet poverty still rising
Posted 21 February 2018
Our new report, One in four: single parent families in the UK, has been released to mark 100 years of Gingerbread’s work. In the centenary report, we profile single parents in the UK today and how...
“Children Deserve More” – Child Maintenance Service loopholes deny children the support they deserve
Posted 26 June 2017
Gingerbread’s new report examines loopholes in the child maintenance system The child maintenance system is failing to ensure children receive the appropriate level of support they are entitled to, according to a new report by Gingerbread. ‘Children...
Gingerbread welcomes Work and Pensions Select Committee findings on child maintenance
Posted 2 May 2017
New findings chime with Gingerbread’s analysis of problems in the child maintenance system Gingerbread welcomes the findings in the Work and Pensions select committee’s new report on the failings of the current child maintenance system. [1] The...
Gingerbread response to National Audit Office investigation into closure of Child Support Agency
Posted 28 March 2017
Gingerbread welcomes new report investigating the closure of body previously responsible for child maintenance Gingerbread welcomes the National Audit Office (NAO) report into the closure of the Child Support Agency, which confirms the concerns that single...
Gingerbread statement on the National Audit Office investigation into HMRC’s contract with Concentrix
Posted 17 January 2017
Gingerbread responds to findings of investigation into contract between HMRC and Concentrix, which failed to help single parents entitled to child maintenance The National Audit Office (NAO) report into the contract between HMRC and Concentrix is...
Areas with highest unpaid child maintenance in Britain revealed
Posted 26 October 2016
New research from Gingerbread reveals levels of unpaid child maintenance around the country. Single parents living in a West Yorkshire constituency are owed more than £6.6m in unpaid child maintenance, topping figures published today by Gingerbread...
Government service puts domestic abuse survivors at risk
Posted 13 September 2016
Untrained staff and flawed systems failing parents, warn Gingerbread and Women’s Aid Domestic abuse survivors are being put at risk by the government’s new Child Maintenance Service, finds new evidence from Gingerbread and Women’s Aid. The Child...