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Gingerbread responds to Budget 2018
Posted 29 October 2018
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Read the latest news on Gingerbread’s work and the issues affecting single parent families today.
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...
One in seven single parents hit with benefit sanctions
Posted 12 April 2017
Gingerbread’s new report looks at the impact of the benefit sanctions regime on single parents The government is systematically underestimating the risk of sanctions to single parents, according to new research from Gingerbread. “On the rise: single...
Gingerbread queries “muddled thinking” behind new government programme
Posted 4 April 2017
Gingerbread’s response to the news that controversial Troubled Families programme has received additional funding The government has today announced further funding for the Troubled Families programme, originally launched in 2012. The focus of the new phase...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Gingerbread announces appointment of Rosie Ferguson as Chief Executive
Posted 11 January 2017
Rosie Ferguson, former Chief Executive of London Youth, has been appointed the new Chief Executive of Gingerbread Gingerbread is pleased to announce that Rosie Ferguson will join the organisation as Chief Executive on 15 February 2017. Rosie...
Gingerbread responds to the National Audit Office report on sanctions
Posted 30 November 2016
Gingerbread’s research shows that benefit sanctions are both ineffective and disproportionally affect single parents Responding to the National Audit Office report on sanctions, Gingerbread Research Officer Sumi Rabindrakumar said: “Our own research has found that single parents are...