Lone parents searching for work through employment
and skills specialists Working Links now have access to a new range
of services.
The new service comes after Working Links –
which has more than 180 offices across the UK – partnered with
specialist one parent family charity Gingerbread.
Working Links deliver a host of government
contracts aimed at helping people, including hundreds of lone
parents every year, from social exclusion to social inclusion –
whether through finding sustainable employment or taking training
to update skills.
The year-long partnership will see Working
Links advisers and their lone parent customers offered
Gingerbread’s free, tailored service including access to a helpline
and website.
Working Links’ Partnership Director Bob Dewin
said: “Lone parents face a variety of different challenges. In
order to overcome these hurdles it is important that we don’t just
offer them support finding work, but also advice on housing,
benefits and flexible working.
“To do this, we work with a strong network of
partnership organisations to ensure our lone parent customers get
the best possible advice, guidance and support possible. A great
deal can be learnt from charities like Gingerbread.”
Gingerbread’s Single Parent Helpline provides
expert telephone information and advice to single parents on issues
they face including child maintenance, benefits, tax credits,
education, employment, housing, arrangements with the non-resident
parent, money difficulties and welfare reform changes.
For more information on Working Links, please
contact us
or call free on 0800 917 9262.