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SPR is a campaign group fighting for single parents' rights https://linktr.ee/SingleParentRights

28/09/2026

This week is the first ever matrescence awareness week!

And we're asking... What does matresence mean to you?

Matrescence is the physical, emotional, social and psychological transition into motherhood. It can unfold as your family grows, and changes, a process lasting long after the baby years.

For many of us, becoming a mother is also the time we become a *single* mother.

For others, the single part is added later.

So why does matrescence matter to you?

Let us know in the comments below 👇

We'd love to hear how becoming a *single* mother specifically affected that process of matrescence.

Matrescence.UK

25/09/2026

📢Last year 800 of you told us about the problems with parental leave for single parents.

👂Over and over we heard about how low maternity and adoption pay hits single parents harder.

📃The government has been running a review into parental leave and will present its recommendations next year.

🎤There's been LOTS of noise about increasing paternity pay and leave (which is cleary needed), but there has been little noise around maternity/ adoption pay, and single parents have been almost ignored in public discussions on the topic.

🗣️While we've been speaking with government behind the scene, lobbying other organisations and sharing our research, there's one thing we need your help with.

✍️A petition has been set up to press the government to raise maternity/ adoption pay.

✅This could make a huge difference to many single parents.

❓Agree? Please sign the petition.

🔗https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/779259

22/09/2026

📢New government data out today reveals 114,552 single parent families were benefit capped in May 2026.

📈That’s 70% of all benefit capped households, and a whopping 86% of all capped households with children. ⏫Up from 84% last quarter.

❌This isn’t an accident.

🧑‍🧒‍🧒The benefit cap was specifically designed to impact single parent families. If you’re a single parent, no matter how young your child is, you are expected to earn the same amount as a couple with no caring responsibilities.

👶Having a young child as a single parent makes earning a consistent income challenging, but the benefit cap ignores this. That’s why 61% of all single parents who are capped have a child aged 0-4 years.

🔢The total number of single parent families who have been benefit capped since the cap was introduced is well over half a million.

✅Removing the benefit cap and making things fairer for single parent families must be a priority for this government in the upcoming budget.

❓Agree? Write to your MP today.

21/09/2026

If you're in London (E17 to be exact) come and join us for a morning of connection for single and solo parents with a panel and question and answer session on all things single parenthood.

🗓️Friday 2nd Oct
⏲️ 9:30–11:30am
📍 CRATE Food Hall, 17 & Central, Selborne Rd, London E17 7JR.
🚇 Walthamstow Central

It's set to be a great event, organised by Orla Donoghue | Single Parent Coach and 28-day Business Kickstarter Sprints

I'll be speaking alongside other panellists Natalie and Sabina | It's My Family ®️

🔗https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2001510732480?aff=oddtdtcreator

🧑‍🧒Kids welcome 🤗

18/09/2026

🏠 Earlier this month I wrote about why the Renters Rights Act needs to provide greater protections for single parents. 🧑‍🧒

🔗https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/the-renters-rights-act-isnt-enough-to-end-discrimination-against-single-parents-98410

10/09/2026

🌜Last night (it was a late one!) we submitted our budget submission. This is a way of influencing the government on what is needed in the upcoming Autumn budget.

🧑‍🧒Our asks focus on policies which treat single parents differently, or have a disproportionate impact on single parent families.

Our key asks were:

👉Remove the benefit cap

👉Raise the LHA

👉Introduce a home buyer ISA that's exempt from UC savings limits

👉Introduce a Single Parent Allowance in child benefit for those who don't receive at least minimum CMS payments

👉Make child benefit and the upper earnings threshold for childcare support based on household income, not individual income

📩Want to share with your MP? Drop us DM with your email and we'll send it over to you 😄

08/09/2026

Kinda chic to be late to the trend 😬

What would you add?

01/09/2026

📅Last month one of our members spoke with The Mirror about their experiences of living on a low income this summer.

👛We know that living on a low incomes isn't just hard during the summer but all year round.

📢That's why it's critical the upcoming budget supports single parent families.

👉This includes removing the benefit cap, raising the Local Housing Allowance and improving childcare support so it's genuinely affordable for all.

❓What would you like to see in the first budget from Burnham?

🔗Read the full article: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/andy-burnham-child-poverty-benefits-37548006

🙏Thanks to the mum who shared her story and to all our members who speak with journalists. It really helps to bring lived realities alive.

31/08/2026

📢The expansion of Free School Meals to families in receipt of UC in England is great news. But those 500,000 newly eligible children and young people should also be able to access the Holiday Activities and Food programme which is usually available for families in receipt of Free School Meals.

Feeding Britain have set up a petition they will be taking to Downing Street in September to push the government to maintain this link.

✍️Please consider signing and sharing. Link in our stories, or drop us a DM.🔗

🗺️Please note these policy changes are only applicable in England. And don't forget to apply for Free School Meals if you're newly entitled.

30/08/2026

📢Did you know that from the start of this term all children in receipt of UC in England are entitled to Free School Meals?

❓Have you applied yet? If not contact your council to apply.

🏷️Share this to help spread the word.

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