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New Gingerbread report finds single parents with pre-school children in London face distinct challenges to job-seeking under Universal Credit
Posted 29 September 2020
Read the latest news on Gingerbread’s work and the issues affecting single parent families today.
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Posted 29 September 2020
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...
Posted 19 September 2019
As the Trust continues to urge the Government to end the five week wait for Universal Credit (UC), their latest policy report reveals that the longer the new benefits system has been rolled out in...
Posted 18 September 2019
At Gingerbread, we know that debt is a big issue for many single parents. Our helpline team takes lots of calls on money issues and we regularly hear of the wide-reaching effects of debt on...
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...
Posted 18 October 2017
In response to the debate on Universal Credit held today, Rosie Ferguson, Chief Executive at Gingerbread, comments: “Rather than taking action to help families, the government seems content to tinker round the edges of Universal Credit....
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...
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...
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...
Posted 8 November 2016
The End Child Poverty coalition releases new figures on child poverty in the UK, arguing that welfare cuts have exacerbated the problem The End Child Poverty coalition has today published new figures providing a new Child...
Posted 27 May 2016
Gingerbread releases new figures on the scale of child poverty across the UK. Research by Gingerbread revealed that, since 2013, 46 per cent of children from single parent households in London and the south live in relative...