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About our campaigns
One Parent Families campaigns are aimed at key decision makers in Government to ensure that lone parents and their children are not disadvantaged and do not suffer from poverty, isolation, or social exclusion. About our campaigns |
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Our campaign news
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Ask your MP to support stopping changes to lone parent benefits
The government is introducing changes to lone parents benefits so that people with younger children have to look for work as a condition of claiming benefit. Ask your MP to support stopping benefits changes
New research reveals child poverty costs the UK 25bn a year
New research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reveals that child poverty has costs to the whole of society, as well as for the children who grow up missing out. You can read a copy of the research here: New research reveals child poverty costs
Biggest ever event to end child poverty - October 4, 2008
Together, the members of the Campaign to End Child Poverty are holding the UK's biggest ever event to end child poverty and One Parent|Families Gingerbread is going to be there! Biggest ever event to end child poverty, October 4
Help campaign for the rights of disabled children
October 2007 One Parent Families|Gingerbread supports the Every Disabled Child Matters campaign to get rights and justice for every disabled child. Every Disabled Child Matters.
End Child Poverty: Have your say
September 2007 Get involved with the End Child Poverty campaign
Make Child Benefit Count
August 2006: Sixty years ago this August, Family Allowances were first paid to parents with two or more children. Its successor Child Benefit remains crucial in helping parents make ends meet and tackling child poverty. Make Child Benefit Count - email the Chancellor
Letter to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on Child Poverty and Welfare Reform
November 2005
Dear John Hutton ... Letter on Child Poverty and Welfare Reform
One Parent Families campaigns to help families meet the costs of schooling
 September 2005 The Government is committed to eradicating child poverty and promoting inclusion in schools. Yet increasing insistence on the importance of a distinctive uniform to promote school identity... Costs of schooling campaign and tips for schools
Help NIACE campaign for fairer funding for adult learners
August 2005 NIACE, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, are campaigning for fairer funding for adult learners - including lone parents. Fairer funding for adult learners
One Parent Families calls for reform of the tax credits system
June 2005 Read our press release on More...
Remember lone parents in the next parliament!
May 2005 One Parent Families has written to all new MPs asking them to remember lone parents in the next parliament. We sent them a copy of our publication One Parent Families Today: The Facts - so that they get the real... Remember lone parents
Tax credits: One Parent Families call on MPs for fairness
February 2005 One Parent Families is part of a group of organisations campaigning on tax credits – the Tax Credits Co-Ordinating Group - who have written to all MPs asking if they can understand a tax credits award notice. Tax credits: One Parent Families call on MPs
Support our campaign to get a better deal for lone parents
June 2005 We are part of a coalition or organisations campaigning for a better deal for parents and carers. ... How you can support our campaign
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Make Child Support work
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Your say on the CSA - 5 December 2006
What do you think about the Government's plans for the CSA? Do you agree with the agency being the last resort for lone parents? Would you pay to use the new CSA? Your say on the CSA
Re-thinking child support: submission to Sir David Henshaw
May 2006 We welcome the decision of the Secretary of State to order a fundamental rethink about the way in which the current child support scheme operates, and to redesign it to make it fit for purpose. Re-thinking child support: submission to Sir David
Current Child Support Agency Performance
September 2005 - Latest number of Child Support Agency cases
The Child Support Agency (CSA) is currently dealing with around 1.43 million cases.
Two-thirds of cases (950,000... Current C.S.A. Performance
5/11/04 Letter to the Secretary of State - Reductions in DWP staffing levels: impact on the Child Support Agency
Archive - November 2004. To Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State... Letter to the Secretary of State 5/11/04
Work and Pensions Select Committee inquiry into child support
Archive - October 2004. Further memorandum from One Parent Families... Select Committee inquiry into child support
Compelling evidence on the CSA
In October 2004 Nancy Lombard, a PhD student with a young son, travelled to London at our invitation to give evidence, speaking in Parliament on the Child Support Agency
The Performance of the Child Support Agency
Archive - June 2004 Submission to the Work and Pensions Select Committee from One Parent Families.
The full submission can be downloaded at the bottom of this page. The Performance of the Child Support Agency
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