This report summarises the findings from research funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which explored separated parents’ experiences of child maintenance and the Child Maintenance Service (CMS). The research included 24 interviews with separated parents,...

This report, funded by Lloyds Bank Foundation for England & Wales, shows the impact of Univesrsal Credit (UC) sanctions on single parents. We worked with our partners Himmah and Home-Start Lambeth to complete desk research...

We designed this research to provide an up-to-date picture of what it means to be a single parent in the UK in 2023, and to see what has changed since we produced our last report...

Summary The Single Parent Employment Challenge project explored single parents’ experiences of the UK labour market, as we emerged from pandemic restrictions from mid-2021. Focusing on those single parents who experienced unemployment during the pandemic, it...

Gingerbread’s final report, “The Invisible Family: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on single parents living in London” shows that there are differences between the challenges single parents face at a local and national level. Locality...

Gingerbread today published the interim research findings for ‘The Invisible Family: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on single parents living in London’ report. The Covid-19 pandemic exposed, exacerbated, and solidified deeply entrenched health and...

Gingerbread today published the interim research findings of The Single Parent Employment Challenge report, demonstrating that the current system of back to work support, the high cost of childcare and the lack of flexible jobs is...

Summary A Day One right to ask for flexible working is a step in the right direction but does not go nearly far enough. We need progression of the Employment Bill with a legal obligation on...

Watch the launch webinar below, with single parent Andrea, researchers Laura Dewar and Liz Clery, Gingerbread CEO, Victoria Benson, and chaired by Institute for Employment Studies Director, Tony Wilson. The final report arising from Gingerbread’s Caring...

Watch the Caring Without Sharing launch event webinar:

New research report ‘The single parent debt trap’ published by Gingerbread and StepChange, the UK’s leading debt charity, reveals that single parents are more likely to be living with problem debt. The research also shows...