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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.
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...
NAO report recommends legislation change to ensure the Child Maintenance Service is fit for purpose
Posted 3 March 2022
The National Audit Office (NAO) have today published a report highlighting that, in spite of government reform, the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is falling short of delivering the support that families need. The NAO report found...
Gingerbread calls on the Government to scrap unfair child maintenance fees
Posted 29 June 2021
Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families, is calling on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to scrap unfair child maintenance fees. These fees are taken by the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) from money...
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...
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 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...
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...
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