Yesterday’s announcements on energy prices and the rising cost of living will be deeply worrying for the UK’s 1.8 million single parent families, many of whom have already faced a sustained squeeze on their finances...

Making the Child Maintenance Service Work for Single Parent Families This was one of the reasons the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Single Parent Families met in January to discuss how the CMS must be improved...

In December 2021, it was revealed that since the formation of the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) in 2012, there has been over £435.9 million in unpaid child maintenance owed through its Collect and Pay service.

Your experiences will help us to develop Gingerbread’s evidence base for our influencing efforts across London and nationally.   We know that your time is precious so the interview will take no longer than 45 minutes. Interviews will be held throughout January and will be at a time that suits you,...

The Single Parent Employment Challenge It was therefore timely that a week on from an Autumn Budget that did little to improve the lot of these single parent households, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Single...

Research by Gingerbread and other organisations have shown that the end of furlough, the cut to the £20 uplift in Universal Credit (UC), and insecure work continues to put immense pressure on millions of single parent households across the country.