EDM 197: 80th anniversary of One Parent Families Scotland

That this House recognises the 80th anniversary of One Parent Families Scotland; understands that One Parent Families Scotland is the country’s leading charity working with single parent families in Scotland; endorses the organisation’s aims of enabling single parent families to overcome barriers to their participation in the labour market and wider society and to advocate for a decent standard of living; understands that the organisation has operations in five different Scottish local authorities, including in North Lanarkshire, where staff offer one-to-one support, provide advice on benefits and public services and assist with crisis applications to single parents in Coatbridge and Bellshill and across the local authority area; and praises One Parent Families Scotland’s considerable efforts to tackle stigma, discrimination and poverty facing single parent families in Scotland since its formation in 1944.