.Fife Gingerbread are recruiting for a Family Learning Coordinator to join their Making it Work for Families team! tinyurl.com/ym8fc492 £29,394 #Fife #CharityJob

We’re excited to announce that our Strategic Manager, Laura, will be a speaker at The PANEL Principles to Taking a Human Rights-Based Approach: Participation. Join the The Poverty Alliance lunchtime learning session. Secure your spot today: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-panel-pr…

Dear First Minister, You’ve committed to eradicating the injustice of child poverty. Now it’s time for action. The Programme for Government must include measures that will lead to a meaningful reduction in overall poverty rates. Let's #ChallengePoverty together. #ScotPfG

What a busy weekend! 🎉 From the Anstruther Harbour Festival to the Kelty Coal Race and celebrating Pizza Hut's 1st birthday, there’s been lots of fundraising fun! If you're looking to fundraise, get in touch here - [email protected]

📢 Today! 12 - 1pm. How can we involve people with lived experience in the decisions that affect them, particularly those furthest removed from their #HumanRights? 👇Join our first #RightsInAction lunchtime learning webinar. eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-panel-pr…

Join Our Team as a Family Learning Coordinator! As a key player in our team, you’ll help bring families together, focusing on building secure relationships within households and fostering supportive peer networks. Apply now: fifegingerbread.org.uk/family-learnin…

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at today’s drop-in event! We had an incredible turnout, and we’re so grateful for your participation. Special thanks to Jenny Gilruth for attending and showing her support.

🚨 Exciting news! A ground-breaking new research report on UK child maintenance drops on Monday, September 16th! 📊 Uncovering key issues with the #ChildMaintenanceService by One Parent Families Scotland, IPPR Scotland , Fife Gingerbread, and The Poverty Alliance 👀Stay tuned! #TransformingChildMaintenance

📢📢Big news 📢📢 You can now read our new report based on groundbreaking research on the UK Child Maintenance system by One Parent Families Scotland, IPPR Scotland and Fife Gingerbread ➡️ opfs.org.uk/TCMreport #TransformingChildMaintenance

⚡ ICYMI ⚡  ❗ Today we, IPPR Scotland and @fifeGingerbread released a report on the #childmaintenanceservice, revealing several catastrophic failings. ➡️ Read more here: opfs.org.uk/get-involved/n… #TransformingChildMaintenance

Thank you caroline wilson for highlighting the major failings of the #ChildMaintenanceService, uncovered in our latest research with IPPR Scotland and Fife Gingerbread 👇🏽 heraldscotland.com/news/24576858.…

1/5 📢 New research by OPFS, IPPR Scotland + Fife Gingerbread concludes part 1 of the #TransformingChildMaintenance project. Findings:  ☹️ Widespread dissatisfaction  ⚖️ Inconsistent enforcement  ⚠️ Safety risks for abuse survivors & more. ➡️ opfs.org.uk/TCMreport

IPPR Scotland Fife Gingerbread 2/5 ✂️The growth in separated families with no maintenance arrangements goes back to 2012 - austerity. ⏬ Steps were taken to reduce costs to the state by shifting separated families out of state-administered systems and into so-called “family-based arrangements”.

IPPR Scotland Fife Gingerbread Gingerbread Single Parent Rights CPAG Scotland Children in Scotland Parenting across Scotland Prof Morag Treanor FRSA Shared Parenting Scotland Parenting NI 3/5 💷 Automatic referral to the Child Maintenance Service for benefit recipients was replaced by fees & charges, discouraging use of statutory arrangements and creating barriers to state support.  ➡️ This is borne out in how the CMS manages Collect & Pay + Direct Pay services.

IPPR Scotland Fife Gingerbread Gingerbread Single Parent Rights CPAG Scotland Children in Scotland Parenting across Scotland Prof Morag Treanor FRSA Shared Parenting Scotland Parenting NI Fathers Network Scot The Robertson Trust The Poverty Alliance Challenge Poverty Week Engender Scottish Women's Budget Group Dads Rock 4/5 ☹️ Working with both 'receiving' + 'paying' parents, we found widespread distress + distrust—far from the promised "higher satisfaction."  👎 Rather than empowering families, the system leaves many children with no support and penalises those unable to reach agreements.

IPPR Scotland Fife Gingerbread Gingerbread Single Parent Rights CPAG Scotland Children in Scotland Parenting across Scotland Prof Morag Treanor FRSA Shared Parenting Scotland Parenting NI Fathers Network Scot The Robertson Trust The Poverty Alliance Challenge Poverty Week Engender Scottish Women's Budget Group Dads Rock PregnantThenScrewed Surviving Economic Abuse Paul O’Kane MSP 🇺🇦 Families Outside Scottish Women's Aid 5/5 ❌ Large nos of families with no maintenance arrangement isn't inevitable. ✅ Department for Work and Pensions is starting to see shortcomings. 🎯 Our goal: create a system that better guarantees financial security for children in separated families. ➡️ opfs.org.uk/TCMreport

✅ The #ChildMaintenanceService CAN reduce #ChildPoverty. ❌ BUT too few families have arrangements in place. ➡️ Read our report & an evaluation by @povertyalliance on @fifegingerbread's work supporting families in Fife: opfs.org.uk/policy-and-cam… #TransformingChildMaintenance

📢 Today, Fife Gingerbread is at the Scottish Parliament for the launch of the Transforming Child Maintenance report! We're proud to be part of this important conversation alongside IPPR Scotland The Poverty Alliance and One Parent Families Scotland

An excellent opportunity to present the findings of our #TransformingChildMaintenance report at Scottish Parliament with Fife Gingerbread & One Parent Families Scotland. Thankful to the parents who made this research possible & who shared their lived experiences in parliament about how broken the system is.

Thank you to Paul O’Kane MSP 🇺🇦 for hosting our Transforming Child Maintenance roundtable. With contributions from Fife Gingerbread One Parent Families Scotland IPPR Scotland The Poverty Alliance to highlight the deep rooted intentional barriers that prevent children from receiving fair financial support.