Gingerbread Policy @GingerbreadPA
Views from @Gingerbread's Policy team on policy and research affecting single parent families in the UK. gingerbread.org.uk/policy England and Wales Joined July 2012-
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**ONE WEEK TO GO** On 17 Jan @ 11am we are hosting an event with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Single Parent Families on how the CMS can work better for single parent families. Open to all. Register here: bit.ly/3GcAbFL #singleparents #ChildMaintenanceService
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Look, as a professional working mother in a leafy bit of London, I’m not asking for sympathy. But it is time the reality of the cost of childcare is thrown into sharper relief. I pay *more than £4000* a month. I have an afternoon nanny who picks my 5yo son from school. 1/2
It's unacceptable that @RishiSunak has decided to cut #UniversalCredit incomes by £20 a week in six months' time. This means support will be whipped away at the same time as furlough ends and will lead to hundreds of thousands more people being pulled into poverty. #Budget2021
Delighted to learn that the Government has extended the test and trace support payments so that parents of children told to isolate can now apply. This will help so many parents on a low income. We campaigned hard for this along with our friends @Gingerbread & @workingfamUK
In @TheSun (bit.ly/GGB_Sun-250221), Gingerbread CEO @_VictoriaBenson: "It's vital the claim process is swift and straightforward. Gingerbread urges @GOVUK to clarify its guidance on whether the scheme will allow for backdated claims". #PaymentSupportScheme #ParentIsolationGrant
Great recognition of #EconomicAbuse in new @StepChange @Gingerbread report published yesterday on ‘The single parent debt trap’. Look forward to speaking at the parliamentary launch on 22 Feb jointly hosted by APPG on Debt & Personal Finance and #APPG on Single Parent Families.
Finally, we urge the Government to ensure single parents have sufficient income by preventing #economicabuse and supporting survivors. 4/4
Single working parents unable to escape debt: bit.ly/2NhrDXu New report from @Gingerbread
@5_News on @Gingerbread's new report finding 66% of single parents go without food to pay off debt and 20% have to cut back on food for their children. When families are already going without essentials, not extending the £20 uplift to #UC is unforgivable. #KeepTheLifeline
"I buy him fruit and veg but I can't afford to eat any... half my salary goes to paying my ex-partner's debt" This woman's ex walked out, leaving her with their new baby and £45,000 worth of debt to pay. During the pandemic, she's had to skip meals to keep her son fed.
Good to see my report in the @BigIssue on the scale of problem debt among single parent households, and how lone parents essentially work their way into debt rather than out of it. Urgent action needed on #Childcare #UC and #LivingWage to make work pay.
Single parents are becoming trapped in a cycle of problem debt and poverty during the pandemic as they struggle to work their way out of financial trouble, new research from @StepChange and @Gingerbread has shown. bigissue.com/latest/two-thi…
The #singleparent #debttrap report from Gingerbread & @StepChange is based on national polling of both #single and #coupleparents, conducted by @SavantaComRes + case study interviews. So, what did we find? What are the reasons for #singleparent #problemdebt? 1/3
#Singleparentfamilies’ charity, @Gingerbread, & @StepChange, the UK’s leading #debt charity, have today published a new report showing the UK’s 2 million #singleparents are more likely than any other sector of society to be living with #problemdebt. 1/3
"For #singleparents, #coronavirus came without a lifejacket," says Gingerbread researcher, @JoeRichardson42 in @EmployeeBenefit, "However, that does not mean #employers are powerless when it comes to supporting single parents". bit.ly/EB_Employer-su…
Great thread by our friends at @Gingerbread ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Money not #FoodParcels. It's not rocket science. 🤦♀️
This is not enough to feed children. At Gingerbread, we know 1 in 3 single parents have a child on #FreeSchoolMeals (#FSM) – #children in #singleparentfamilies are 2x as likely to be on FSM. Apparently, these children can be fed for a week with a few apples & a tin of beans. 1/4
We are, therefore, calling on the #government to give parents money rather than parcels & to combat #FoodPoverty in the long term by maintaining the £20 uplift to #UniversalCredit (#UC) & lifting #ChildBenefit for a #HungerFreeFuture. 4/4
Throughout the #COVID19 #pandemic, single parents have had to be the sole teacher, earner, #parent and playmate all at the same time. Somehow, their job has just become much, much harder. #Hungrychildren cannot learn. 3/4
Previous #research has shown #singleparents (=more likely to be in poverty than any other UK household), are brilliant at making every £ stretch – because they need to be. There is no doubt that if they had the money rather than #foodparcels, their child would be less hungry. 2/4
This is not enough to feed children. At Gingerbread, we know 1 in 3 single parents have a child on #FreeSchoolMeals (#FSM) – #children in #singleparentfamilies are 2x as likely to be on FSM. Apparently, these children can be fed for a week with a few apples & a tin of beans. 1/4
3 days of food for 1 family... Just not good enough.
Great to hear @Keir_Starmer and @UKLabour's emphasis on the #family also includes single parents. Those of us in Parliament bring our own direct experiences of issues that disproportionately affect us such as childcare, needing benefits, dealing with dire CMS, work/life balance.
It needs to not only include but centralise single parent families. There are many of us and we are not your stereotypes. Ask single mum's in particular their experience of the increased pressures parenting in the pandemic which they have almost exclusively bore the brunt of.
Great to hear @Keir_Starmer and @UKLabour's emphasis on the #family also includes single parents. Those of us in Parliament bring our own direct experiences of issues that disproportionately affect us such as childcare, needing benefits, dealing with dire CMS, work/life balance.
I Look upon single parents in awe. Superhero's in my eyes @GingerbreadPA
It needs to not only include but centralise single parent families. There are many of us and we are not your stereotypes. Ask single mum's in particular their experience of the increased pressures parenting in the pandemic which they have almost exclusively bore the brunt of.
This big hug goes out to all the single parents (90% of whom in the UK are mothers) with sole responsibility for a teenager’s welfare, education, nutrition, hygiene, physical health & moods, who are now doing it cut off by lockdown from school teachers, friends & extended family.
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