Nursery World - Data reveals lone parents in poverty

New research highlights the link between single parents and poverty in Scotland. Glasgow-based organisation One Plus, which runs childcare training as one of its initiatives to help lone parents into work, found a heavy concentration of lone-parent families in areas defined by the Scottish Executive as suffering multiple deprivation.

Glasgow-based organisation One Plus, which runs childcare training as one of its initiatives to help lone parents into work, found a heavy concentration of lone-parent families in areas defined by the Scottish Executive as suffering multiple deprivation.

A quarter of Scotland's families - 151,484 - are headed by lone parents, an increase of 66 per cent since the 1991 census. In the four most deprived areas of Scotland, lone parents account for more than 60 per cent of families, One Plus found.

The Scottish Executive is committed to eradicating child poverty by 2020 and to increasing the number of lone parents in employment to 70 per cent by 2010. Currently 26 per cent of lone mothers work part time and 21 per cent full time.

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