Between 2008 and 2010, lone parent support organisation, Gingerbread
Northern Ireland has led a Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Programme project aimed
at developing best practice among those working with lone parent beneficiaries
across the EU. The project - ‘Empower: lone parents building confidence and
accessing learning' - created a learning partnership between Northern Ireland,
Scotland, Spain, Poland, Lithuania and Germany. It was set up to exchange
knowledge and best practice about working with lone parents.
One-parent households are a group identified by the European Commission and
in many European countries’ National Action Plans as highly vulnerable to
poverty and social exclusion. The project particularly focused on raising
awareness of the barriers facing lone parents trying to access education and
employment, which contribute directly to difficulties entering the labour
market and associated social exclusion and poverty.
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