Single-parent families ‘driven out of work’

Single-parent families are being effectively pushed out of work and into long-term poverty traps due to poorly thought-out Government policies on low-paid salaries, out-of-school care and housing costs.

One Family, Ireland’s national organisation for people parenting alone or who share parenting with a former partner, made the claim in a detailed new report into the hidden situation.

Speaking after the launch of the annual review document, which can be read at www.irishexaminer.com, group officials said despite repeated poverty warnings Government is still failing to help single parent families struggling to make ends meet.