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One Parent Families|Gingerbread’s response to new proposals on welfare reform
No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility: A Response to the Green Paper
October 2008 ...
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New report on the financial consequences of domestic violence
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Work and lone parents - two new research reports
October 2007 Read our research on
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Employment, Opportunity and Skills – where next?
12/05/08 In January we produced a discussion paper, written in response to Employment, Opportunity and Skills by One Parent Families|Gingerbread and WorkDirections. In this we emphasised our support for the approach taken and...
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Sustainable employment and skills – Questions arising from Opportunity, Employment and Progression: making skills work
January 2008
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Lone parents, employment and poverty in London: A response to the proposals from the London Skills and Employment Board
January 2008
Download the full paper below.
This paper considers the position of lone parents and their children, in response to the proposals published by the London Skills and Employment Board (LSEB).
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Time to talk: A response from One Parent Families|Gingerbread
October 2007
We welcome the opportunity to respond to this consultation. It is estimated that between one third and one half of all children will spend some time living as part of a family headed by a lone parent.
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'In work, better off': A Response to the Green Paper from One Parent Families|Gingerbread
October 2007 ...
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Lone parents and employment: note of a seminar held on the 19th September 2007
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'In Work - Better Off': Lone Parents and Employment Conditionality - Initial response
August 2007
Is conditionality justified?
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Reform of the Social fund
April 2007 - Submission to the Work and Pensions Select Committee
Child Poverty Action Group, Save the Children, Family Welfare Association...
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Move to the Jobseekers’ Allowance regime for lone parents whose youngest child is aged 12 would be wrong
April 2007 One Parent Families believes that the evidence at present suggests a move to the Jobseekers' Allowance regime for lone parents whose youngest child is aged 12 would be wrong .
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Work care and social inclusion; lone motherhood under New Labour
A summary of findings for One Parent Families by Adam Whitworth, Department for Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford. April 2007.
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Budget 2007 - letter to Rt. Hon Gordon Brown MP
Sent to The Rt. Hon Gordon Brown MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, HM Treasury
02/03/07 We wrote to you recently to set out our priorities for this year's Comprehensive Spending Review, and to stress the importance of tackling poverty for children in one-parent families.
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Lone parents and employment conditionality: key points
This information can be downloaded as a PDF at the bottom of this page.
February 2007: The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, John Hutton, recently floated the idea of increasing the conditions that lone parents must fulfil in order to claim Income Support...
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Marks & Start - Parents Returning to Work: A Qualitative Report by Taryn Ferris
January 2007...
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The cost of a free education
One Parent Families is part of a coalition of charities campaigning for more help with school costs for poor families. The campaign's latest briefing is available below.
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One Parent Families briefing for Welfare Reform Bill 2nd Reading
July 2006.
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A new deal for welfare: empowering people to work
April 2006 Nine out of ten lone parents say they want to work, although not all do so immediately. We believe that paid work can be a route out of poverty and have therefore been supportive of the Government's efforts to help more lone parents into employment.
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Briefing for Westminster Hall debate on Lone Parent Employment, 02/03/06.
Key points: - The Government have made good progress to date in increasing the lone parent employment rate, and the New Deal for Lone Parents is a successful and cost effective programme.
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