New campaign to stop single parent stigma
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 by Kate Bell Posted in Attitudes, Child poverty, Equality, Gender, Livelihoods | 5 Comments »Kate Bell is Director of Policy, Advice and Communications at the single parent charity Gingerbread. Gingerbread is the national organisation supporting single parents in England and Wales. It is 92 years this month since we were formed as the National ...
Mind the gap
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 by Charlotte Morris Posted in Attitudes, Inequality, UK poverty | 1 Comment »Charlotte Morris, press officer for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Like all good press officers, I listen to the Today programme every morning. This morning I heard two things I had heard already. The first was an interview with the RSPB – ...
Single parenthood doesn’t equal social breakdown – further evidence
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 by Kate Bell Posted in Attitudes, Child poverty, Gender, Inequality, UK poverty | 2 Comments »Kate Bell is Director of Policy, Advice and Communications at the single parent charity Gingerbread Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s book ‘The Spirit Level’ set out comprehensively to demonstrate that more equal societies are better for everyone. In their update, which ...
