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Adopting US welfare reforms would mean more poverty, not less
12/12/07 Commenting today on Chris Grayling's announcement that the Conservatives would adopt the 'Wisconsin' welfare reform model and force lone parents of four year olds out to work (and of 11 year olds full time...) ...
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Herding lone parents into Jobcentres is wrong Plan for children', says One Parent Families|Gingerbread
13/12/07 In the same week that Government announced, through the Children's Plan', that it would be putting the needs of children first, it has told lone parents whose children are as young as seven that they must look for work.
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Sinners, Scroungers, Saints: Lone mothers, past and present
October 2007 Women's Library exhibition 17 October 2007 - 29 March 2008.
The Women's Library continues its programme of groundbreaking exhibitions with Sinners, Scroungers, Saints: Lone mothers past and present.
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Charity refutes Cameron stance
16/10/07 One Parent Families|Gingerbread today challenged David Cameron to set out how he would help children in one parent families to escape poverty, and refuted suggestions that the tax and benefit system was encouraging families to separate.
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Lone parent charity welcomes investment in children in poorest families
10/10/07 Lone parent charity One Parent Families|Gingerbread welcomes the Chancellor's Pre Budget Report announcement of a significant increase in the amount of child maintenance that parents on benefits can keep before their benefits are reduced.
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Single parent charity highlights negligible increase in lone parenthood over the past ten years.
04/10/07 Commenting today on figures from the Office for National Statistics showing that the proportion of families who are lone parents has increased by less than one per cent over the past ten years...
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Single parent charity welcomes law commission proposals to give new rights to cohabiting couples
31/07/07 Single parent charity One Parent Families|Gingerbread today welcomed the Law Commission's proposals for the reform of the law relating to the financial consequences of relationship breakdown.
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Big-stick tactics will rebound on children
18/07/07 One Parent Families|Gingerbread strongly criticises the Government's proposal to require lone parents whose youngest child is 12 to be available for work from 2008 and, from 2010, those whose youngest child is seven.
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Single parent charity condemns Tory family stance
10/07/07 One Parent Families|Gingerbread has welcomed proposals in today's Conservative report Breakthrough Britain for better relationship education, joined -up services for separated families and investment in childrens'...
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Tory proposals for tax breaks on marriage will do nothing to tackle poverty
09/07/07 In advance of the publication of the Conservative's proposals on 'social justice', single parent charity One Parent Families|Gingerbread warned that the widely trailed promotion of tax breaks for marriage would do nothing to tackle child poverty.
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PAC Report on CSA: the lessons must be learned says One Parent Families|Gingerbread
05/07/07 Today's report from the Public Accounts Committee is a searing account of the failure of the 2003 reforms of the Child Support Agency, exposing the fact that the scheme went ahead despite warnings of 14 critical...
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No bias in favour of lone parents
13/06/07 One Parent Families|Gingerbread refutes the suggestion stemming from today's report from think-tank Reform that lone parents are better off than couple-families as a result of the tax credits and benefits system.
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Thank you to our hundreds of volunteers
01/06/07 Thank you to hundreds of volunteers who help make Gingerbread: The National Council for One Parent Families a success...
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Child maintenance must work for children says National Council for One Parent Families (incorporating Gingerbread)
06/06/07 The real test of today's Child Maintenance Bill is whether the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) can actually deliver for children in separated families and help to tackle the scandal of child poverty.
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New Voice for Lone Parents - Gingerbread and One Parent Families merge
04/06/07 The three million children being brought up by a parent on their own have won a new voice following the merger of Britain's two leading lone parent organisations, Gingerbread and the National Council for One Parent Families. ...
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Overpayments recovery still causing heartache for lone parents
22/05/07 Figures published today by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs(1) show that nearly a third of tax credit claimants in 2005-06 received an overpayment, including 299,000 awards to lone parent families. - 29 per cent of awards were overpaid in 2005-06...
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CSA 'Still in intensive care' despite recovery plan says One Parent Families
26/04/07 New statistics from the Child Support Agency suggest that its three-year Operational Improvement Plan, which began a year ago, has not yet radically improved the Agency's performance.
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Disappointing figures on child poverty show need for urgent action
27/03/07 National charity One Parent Families today called for the Government to take urgent action to tackle the worrying increase in child poverty announced in today's Households Below Average Income figures. [1]
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Child-friendly chancellor gives boost to lone parents
21/03/07 The National Council for One Parent Families warmly welcomed the Chancellor's Budget today, confirming his support for all families.
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Charity merger boosts support for lone parents
19/03/07 The two leading national charities representing the interests of Britain's 1.8 million lone parents and their 3 million children have agreed in principle to merge.
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