Single Parent Families Alert Sample


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Alert results for: Single Parent Families

Information between 10th January 2024 - 20th April 2024

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Parliamentary Debates
Relationships Education: LGBT Content
66 speeches (15,386 words)
Monday 18th March 2024 - Westminster Hall
Department for Education
Mentions:
1: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) (Families can include for example, single parent families, LGBT parents, families headed by grandparents - Link to Speech

Earnings: Mothers and Fathers
21 speeches (1,426 words)
Wednesday 13th March 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Education
Mentions:
1: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) What steps will the Government take to end discrimination suffered by single-parent families under universal - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 31st January 2024
Oral Evidence - Surviving Economic Abuse, TSB Bank Plc, Women's Aid, Business in the Community, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), and Trades Union Congress

Impact of the rising cost of living on women - Women and Equalities Committee

Found: Single adults living with children are more likely to experience food insecurity, and we know that most single-parent

Tuesday 16th January 2024
Oral Evidence - 2024-01-16 16:15:00+00:00

Proposals for backbench debates - Backbench Business Committee

Found: Gingerbread says that if the payments that are due were paid to single-parent families, we would lift



Department Publications - Statistics
Thursday 21st March 2024
Department for Work and Pensions
Source Page: Separated families statistics: April 2014 to March 2023
Document: (ODS)

Found: numbers of children in absolute low income after housing costs (thousands) [note 7][note 8][note 9] Single

Thursday 29th February 2024
Department for Work and Pensions
Source Page: Local Authority Insight Survey Wave 36: Discretionary Housing Payments
Document: Local Authority Insight Survey Wave 36: Discretionary Housing Payments (PDF)

Found: Authority Insight Survey Wave 36: Discretionary Housing Payments 46 applying for DHPs now, but more single



Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications
Mar. 05 2024
Office of the Schools Adjudicator
Source Page: Menorah Primary School for Girls: 05 March 2024
Document: REF4128: Menorah Primary School for Girls (PDF)
News and Communications

Found: This requirement differentiates between single parent families and others.



Non-Departmental Publications - Statistics
Feb. 29 2024
Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
Source Page: An inspection of contingency asylum accommodation for families with children in Northern Ireland (May – June 2023)
Document: An inspection of contingency asylum accommodation for families with children in Northern Ireland (May – June 2023) (PDF)
Statistics

Found: split across several rooms, which would, in itself, present safeguarding issues, particularly for single-parent




Single Parent Families mentioned in Scottish results


Scottish Cross Party Group Publications
2021 Registration form (PDF)
Source Page: Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Poverty

Found: We intend to look at what drives poverty for pe ople in key areas – rurality, race, single parent families



Scottish Government Publications
Monday 4th March 2024

Source Page: Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: update to 30 September 2023
Document: SWF data to 30 Sep 2023 - Statistical Bulletin (webpage)

Found: estimates for Scotland indicated that only 37% households are single people, and 6% households are single

Thursday 25th January 2024
Local Government and Housing Directorate
Source Page: Proposed changes to council tax calculations: FOI release
Document: FOI 202300377074 - Information Released - Annex C (PDF)

Found: as examples included an elderly lady living in a large house who might have very little income and single

Monday 15th January 2024
Local Government and Housing Directorate
Source Page: Fairer Council Tax: consultation analysis
Document: Fairer Council Tax: Consultation Analysis (PDF)

Found: “The impact wil l be more severe on residents who currently live alone, which include single parent

Friday 12th January 2024
Local Government and Housing Directorate
Source Page: The Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022: report -1 October to 31 December 2023
Document: The Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022: Report to the Scottish Parliament covering the period 1 October to 31 December 2023 (PDF)

Found: Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) • Shelter Scotland • Simon Community Scotland • Single



Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe)
Child Poverty in Scotland since the 1960s
Wednesday 1st December 2021
Child poverty is distinct from adult poverty because of its potentially adverse effects on children's biological, social, cognitive and emotional development. This briefing offers an overview of child poverty in Scotland from 1961, when data collection for Great Britain began, to the present day. Measuring child poverty is complex and often contentious. This briefing
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Found: The rate of marriage declined, the divorce rate increased and there was a large rise in the number of single



Scottish Parliamentary Debates
Subordinate Legislation
14 speeches (8,469 words)
Wednesday 7th February 2024 - Committee
Mentions:
1: Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Lab - Glasgow) What will the minister do to look at single parent families and, specifically, disabled children to see - Link to Speech