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Harnessing lived experience: how parent participation is fostering community to affect change
29/10/2025
Blog
Discover how single parents with lived experience have helped shape the Transforming Child Maintenance project — co-designing solutions, influencing policymakers, and ensuring reforms reflect the real challenges families face.
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Fife Gingerbread: Test and Demonstration
28/10/2025
Blog
Fife Gingerbread reflects on its journey in the Transforming Child Maintenance partnership, testing and improving support to help families navigate the complex child maintenance system and secure fair financial support for children.
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A failed experiment – the need for a new approach to child maintenance in the UK
27/10/2025
Blog
New polling reveals widespread frustration with the UK’s child maintenance system and strong public support for major reform to ensure children get the financial support they’re entitled to.
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Join OPFS at the Scotland Demands Better march and rally
08/10/2025
News
On 25 October, One Parent Families Scotland will march alongside thousands of others to demand a better future for families across Scotland.
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One Parent Families Scotland response to Poverty in Scotland 2025
06/10/2025
News
The UK Government's plans to introduce controversial reforms to PIP and Universal Credit passed at its first vote in Westminster yesterday evening - with 355-260 MPs in favour of progressing the Bill.
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