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        • Impact of UK welfare policies in Scotland
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          • Does the UK Child Maintenance Service deliver value for money for children?
          • Child maintenance: improving enforcement through the commencement of curfew orders
          • Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill briefing
        • Single Parent Families, Benefit Conditionality and Wellbeing – Why conditionality is unnecessary, unjust and ineffective
        • Universal Credit: Single Parents – Gender Issues
        • Benefit sanctions policy beyond the Oakley Review
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        • Adult Disability Payment
        • Scottish Child Payment Response
        • Improving Benefit take up vital in challenge of eradicating child poverty
        • New Job Grant for young people who face barriers to gaining employment
        • OPFS submission to the Scottish Government Disability Assistance Consultation
        • New Job Grant for young people facing barriers to gaining employment
        • Scottish government consultation on fraud in the social security system
        • Welfare Foods – consultation on meeting needs of children and families in Scotland
        • Welfare Foods – consultation on meeting needs of children and families in Scotland
        • Best Start Grant Draft Regulations
        • Closure of Glasgow Job Centres
        • Evidence to Welfare Reform Committee on Welfare Reform and Women
        • Evidence to the Welfare Reform Committee on Future Social Security Powers
        • Scottish government analysis of impact of revisions to Council Tax Reduction Scheme
        • Scottish Welfare Fund Joint Briefing
      • Single Parent Families and Poverty in Scotland
        • Single Parent Families Priorities for Change in 2020
        • Potential impact of Brexit on Single Parents and OPFS
        • Scottish Government Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan – OPFS Response
        • Scottish Government Child Poverty Delivery Plans – Single Parents’ Views
        • OPFS Briefing on the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act
        • Consultation on a Child Poverty Bill for Scotland
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        • Out of School Care in Scotland – Plans for the Future
        • Scottish Government’s commitment to ELC
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        • The Future Delivery of Social Security in Scotland – links with employability support programmes
        • Colleges and Lifelong Learning Policy Commission
        • Devolution Of Employability Services
      • Single Parent Proofing
        • Participatory One Parent Proofing
        • Participatory One Parent Proofing Toolkit – Glasgow
      • One Parent Families Manifesto: 2019 General Election
      • Making It Work Evaluations
      • Impact Reports
      • Submission to consultation from Edinburgh College on single parent experiences of Further Education
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      • Use devolved tax levers to reduce and prevent poverty
      • Single Parents Week 2022
      • Scottish Campaign on Rights to Social Security (SCORSS)
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