Over the past few weeks, Gingerbread’s policy and campaigns team have been busy attending the Liberal Democrat, Labour and ...

We’re excited to support our fundraiser, Zoe, as she takes on the AJ Bell Great South Run in Portsmouth this October. We’re incredibly proud to champion her as she laces up her running shoes to ...

In today’s King’s Speech, His Majesty King Charles outlined the government’s legislative priorities for the year ahead but, disappointingly, plans to reform the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) were ...

Earlier this month, the government released its response to the House of Lords Public Services Committee’s Reforming the Child Maintenance Service report, detailing which of the recommendations it ...

This report, funded by Lloyds Bank Foundation for England & Wales, shows the impact of Univesrsal Credit (UC) sanctions on single parents. We worked with our partners Himmah and Home-Start Lambeth to ...

Today we published an open letter to the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt. We expressed our grave concerns about the introduction of stricter conditionality requirements for Universal Credit claimants with ...

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today published new analysis showing the impact of motherhood on women’s employment and earnings, and the findings are stark. The study, which uses ...

On Wednesday this week, the government announced stricter requirements on ‘conditionality’. These requirements will affect parents on Universal Credit with children aged 3-12. This is a change we have ...

Earlier this week the government announced big changes to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS). Many single parents have been asking us what this will mean for them. Firstly, nothing is changing ...

Baroness Sherlock, the Minister responsible for the Child Maintenance Service (CMS), has responded to our open letter, which called for five key principles to guide the forthcoming service ...

Yesterday evening (17th August), Gingerbread’s CEO Abigail Wood, featured in BBC Panorama’s investigation into the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) and the impact it is having on the families who rely ...