Gingerbread NI

Description

Gingerbread NI is the lead agency working with and for one-parent families.

Gingerbread NI respects and promotes the integrity and life choices of one-parent families, challenges injustices, advocates for rights and positively responds to social change."

Gingerbread NI operates as:


An independent, not for profit organisation, which belongs to one-parent families
An advocate for all one-parent families
An organisation promoting self-help and mutual aid
An organisation providing needs led services, which are appropriate and accessible


Gingerbread NI's strategic aims are:


To represent one-parent families in Northern Ireland
Ensure the provision of appropriate services to meet the identified needs of one-parent families
Initiate and influence policy development at all government levels
Further develop a regional infrastructure (increase group network)
Enhance public understanding of Gingerbread NI and its work
Consolidate the development of Gingerbread NI, promoting quality and good practice.

Gingerbread NI develops and delivers services including:


Advice
Information provision
Vocational training
Personal development
Group support
Young people's services
What is a one-parent family?

Parents with dependent children who are:


Divorced
Separated
Widowed
Single
Have partners in long-term institutional care (Long-term care may be defined as: relating to a prisoner sentenced to 4 years or more or relating to hospital care - a patient in hospital for 6 weeks or more). Women who are single and pregnant


Lone Parent Vital Statistics


There are approximately 91,126 one-parent families in Northern Ireland incorporating 150,000+ dependent children (aged 0-18 years). This equates to 1 in 5 families with dependent children.

News Archive

Four in frame to win vacant council seat. Portadown Times (Portadown, Northern Ireland); 12/4/2009 ...He works with the Childrenas Law Centre, having previously worked with the Citizens Advice Bureau as manager of Gingerbread NI.A lifelong republican, he formerly played football with Clan Na Gael and St Michaelas in Lurgan, and is a keen... ...more