Financial Lifeline for Single Parents Living With Poverty as One Space Launches Online Money Survival Kit

BRISTOL - One Space, www.onespace.org.uk, the popular social networking site for single parents from Single Parent Action Network (SPAN), today launched a groundbreaking online Money Survival Kit to give immediate help to single parents facing financial crisis.

Working in partnership with SCOOP Aid (Sheffield Committee of One Parents), ‘The Money Survival Kit’ comprises a range of easy-to-use, interactive online resources, with practical solutions to help single parents tackle immediate problems such as mortgage arrears, preventing bankruptcy, CSA issues, and managing fuel bills.

SPAN director, Sue Cohen says: “1 in 4 families is now a single parent family and these families are some of the poorest people in the country. As single parents are especially vulnerable in the current economic situation, One Space, our social networking site at Single Parent Action Network (SPAN) and SCOOP Aid has devised an effective and immediate way for single parents to tackle money and debt problems by following a manageable step by step approach.”

The new One Space Money Survival Kit includes 1-2-1 financial and debt advice via email with solution-based case studies that reflect real life experience. Single parents are supported and empowered to identify their own solutions and obtain help from the right sources.

Editors’ notes:

Part of the DCSF’s Parent Know-How programme designed to produce better outcomes for children and their families,One Space is delivered by Single Parent Action Network (SPAN).

www.onespace.org.uk

About Single Parent Action Network (SPAN )

SPAN is a diverse organisation supporting single parents living in poverty and isolation in the UK.By delivering parenting programmes, training, and childcare, SPAN helps single parents move forward in their lives.

SPAN develops partnerships with organisations and agencies to improve policies for one-parent families and gives a voice to single parents whilst celebrating our children, our diversity and our lives.

Case Study: A real time case study follows a single parent through the Money Survival Kit steps, demonstrating that whilst taking control of finances is not easy, with the right help it is achievable.

Interviews: The director of SPAN and One Space, Sue Cohen is available for interview.

Source: Single Parent Action Network

Contact: Angie McDonald, Single Parent Action Network, Bristol, BS5 0YW, Tel: +44(0)117-951-4231 Mobile: +44(0)7768-736003