Scottish Government and Parliament

See submissions, briefings and consultations to Scottish Government and Parliament below.

Single Parents' Manifesto 2026

Informed by consultations with single parents ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament election, this Manifesto sets out the key changes they want to see by 2031.

Budget scrutiny 2026/27 submission

Read One Parent Families Scotland's response to the Social Justice and Social Security Committee's call for views on social security spending in Scotland, 2026/27

Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2026-31 response

Read One Parent Families Scotland’s response to the Scottish Government’s Child Poverty Delivery Plan consultation

Programme for Government 2025/26

Read One Parent Families Scotland’s briefing, setting out the priorities for supporting single parents for the new Programme for Government, May 2025.

OPFS response to Scottish Government's Mitigating the two-child cap consultation

Read One Parent Families Scotland's response to the Scottish Government's Mitigating the two-child cap consultation

Supporting parents to gain further and higher education qualifications

This short paper argues that the Scottish Government’s ‘Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2026-2031‘ should include supporting parents of children in the priority families to gain further and higher education qualifications which enable access to jobs with higher earnings and improved sustainability.

Wraparound care for children with ASN

Evidence from families supported by OPFS supports the proposal in today’s motion that not all families are receiving sufficient out-of-school care during holiday periods – and goes further to argue that support during term time is also not always sufficient to meet families’ needs either.

OPFS response to Scottish Government budget 2025/26

Read One Parent Families Scotland's full response to the Scottish Government's 2025/26 budget

Scottish Government 2025/26 pre-budget briefing

This briefing paper sets out the five priority areas that single parents say would make the biggest impact for Scottish Budget 2025-26

Delivery of Social Security in Scotland - links with employability support programmes

Submission from OPFS to the Scottish Parliament Welfare Reform Committee concerning the future delivery of employment support, including a critique of the previous UK government Work Programme.

Addressing child poverty through parental employment

See our full submission to the inquiry by the Scottish Parliament’s Social Justice and Social Security Committee.

OPFS Briefing for MSP’s on the Devolution Of Employability Services

The devolution of employability services to Scotland is important because it offers opportunities to the Scottish Government to make changes which could actively support single parents to overcome some of the barriers they face.

Submission on Post Legislative Scrutiny of the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017

Read One Parent Families Scotland’s response to the Scottish Parliament Social Justice and Social Security Committee consultation on the impact of the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act.

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