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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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“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,...
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...
Autumn Budget leaves too many single parents facing a bleak winter
Posted 3 November 2021
This week’s Autumn Budget has seen winners (cider drinkers and short-haul flyers) and losers (savers and smokers) but what does it mean for single parents? What does the Budget mean for working single parents? Of the 1.8...
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...
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 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...
Dramatic spike in child poverty for working single parent families
Posted 16 March 2017
Gingerbread’s response to shocking new child poverty figures, with nearly half of children in single parents families in poverty Nearly a half (47 per cent) of children in single parent families now live in poverty, new...
Gingerbread response to the Spring Budget 2017
Posted 8 March 2017
Gingerbread’s Chief Executive, Rosie Ferguson, responds to a Spring Budget that does little to help single parent families In response to today’s budget statement Rosie Ferguson, Chief Executive of Gingerbread said: “Increases in taxation for the self-employed...
Autumn Statement giveaways fail to make up for losses
Posted 23 November 2016
Gingerbread believes that the Autumn Statement does not adequately address the problems that single parents face Responding to the Autumn Statement, Gingerbread Director of Policy Dalia Ben-Galim said: “Today the Chancellor missed a crucial opportunity to make...
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