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Participatory Proofing – Getting policy makers to understand the needs of single parents
Single parents in Bristol have helped mould and deliver a ground-breaking national project to identify the barriers hindering their efforts to get and keep good-quality jobs, define solutions - and take the message direct to policy-makers, from councils to the corridors of Whitehall...
The three year ‘Participatory One Parent Proofing' project, organised by the Single Parent Action Network, aimed to give single parents a voice in the decision-making processes which have a profound effect on the quality of their own lives - and those of the children they are sometimes struggling to raise.
Overall, it has been judged a resounding success by the organisers, participants and those who have heard their presentation - although its true value will lie in its effect on the framing of future policies.
