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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.
Gingerbread response to Spending Review 2021 Consultation
Posted 25 October 2021
Gingerbread is the leading national charity working with single parent families. Our mission is to champion and enable single parent families to live secure, happy, and fulfilling lives. We advise, support and campaign with single...
New report warns single parents will be locked out of work and forced into poverty unless the Government ‘Builds Back Better’ for everyone
Posted 19 May 2021
Watch the report launch webinar here – with single parent Andrea, researchers Laura Dewar and Liz Clery, Gingerbread CEO Victoria Benson and chaired by Institute for Employment Studies Director, Tony Wilson. A report published today by...
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...
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...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced more support for parents to help pay for childcare
Posted 25 January 2017
Gingerbread welcomes introduction of new childcare deposit scheme that will make it easier for single parents to enter work in London Gingerbread welcomed the introduction of a new childcare deposit scheme across all organisations in the Greater...
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