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Annual Review 2006/07

During the year we maintained our strong record in the development of policy and in campaigning for lone parents with an active policy programme, producing policy papers and submissions, and meeting regularly with Ministers, MPs from all political parties and Government officials.

Child Support Agency

One of our main areas of work was around influencing the Government's proposals for reform of the Child Support Agency. We held a series of seven seminars, attracting the key players in this debate, and establishing One Parent Families as the leading voice in the field.

Welfare reform

We also undertook work around proposals for welfare reform for lone parents, with much media attention focused on this area. We produced a series of briefings for officials and parliamentarians, held a seminar to discuss the issue, and met key officials and Ministers.

Consultations

Our parliamentary work inevitably concerned these areas, with a briefing for Labour MPs on the welfare reform proposals, and active participation of parliamentarians in the seminars around child support. We also submitted evidence to Select Committees on tax credits, benefit simplification, and once again the Child Support Agency.

Media presence

Lone parents appear to have once again become a topic of media interest, and our policy and research team has been actively engaged in increasing our media presence in order to combat the negative stereotypes of lone parent families that are often promoted. Our strategy also included participation in and speaking at a number of external conferences.

Research

We were also active on the research side, continuing our Nuffield-funded project on contact between children and separated parents. We undertook commissioned research for Jobcentre Plus and the Greater London Authority. We also started work on a project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, in conjunction with the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which examines the incentives for lone parents to work in shorter-hours jobs to be published in October 2007.

End Child Poverty campaign

One Parent Families is one of the 12 founding children's and family charities of the End Child Poverty campaign, which aims to hold the Government to its pledge to end child poverty within a generation and to build public awareness of, and support for, the issue.

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