The challenge of new family forms for policy
Children have increasingly complex family living arrangements. In the UK, more than 2-in-5 children born in 2000 were not living with both biological parents by age 11.
Funded by the Nuffield Foundation, this project will explore how family living arrangements have changed over recent decades, how this affects adults’ and children’s access to resources, and the implications for social security and child maintenance policy.
Meet the team
Our project team comprises charity-based experts, academics and researchers with extensive economic and policy-related experience.
Project activities
Gingerbread advises on the child maintenance call for evidence
A timely hearing: in early March 2025, parliamentarians were considering how to frame the call for evidence about the UK’s child maintenance system. This hearing is timed at a point of need. Almost one in five children in the UK live in a single-parent family, of whom almost one-half are poor.
Whose income counts?
Families in the UK have been changing Today, there are several common types of family arrangements: Traditional...
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