Gingerbread’s view: the autumn Budget must work for single parents
22nd Oct 2024
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Read the latest news and views on Gingerbread’s work and the issues affecting single parent families today.
22nd Oct 2024
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25th Apr 2024
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2nd Apr 2024
The Government has begun rolling out the country’s biggest ever expansion in childcare. In the first stage, which launched on 1st April 2024, working parents of two-year-olds will be able to access 15 hours of...
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26th Sep 2022
Gingerbread are currently in Liverpool to attend the 2022 Labour Party Conference and encourage our political leaders to recognise the challenges that single parent families face and to prioritise the support they need. We were thrilled...
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25th Oct 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...
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19th 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...
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16th Dec 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...
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21st Feb 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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25th Jan 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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