Ellamental Mama

Single mum writer & campaigner via divorce & donorconception. Founder of #SingleParentRights campaign to end #SingleParent discrimination @SglParentRights

[Ellamental Mama @EllamentalMama]

My piece in The Guardian yesterday

[Guardian Opinion @guardianopinion]

After I told Cummings about life as a single mother, we got support bubbles | Ella Davis https://t.co/EcN9t3tPZz

[Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk]

We agree with the Prime Minister that action they have taken so far on child poverty is the "first step".

The only logical next move is to scrap the two-child limit to benefits in full at the Autumn Budget.

Time is ticking for Britain's children.

[Single Parent Rights @SglParentRights]

Single parent renter?

Please spare 5 minutes to fill our survey.

All data is anonymous and will be used to influence policy change around single parents and housing.

➡️https://t.co/jF1e6WmP5c

Pls RT.

#SingleParents #SingleParentDiscrimination #Housing #HousingCrisis

[Shared Health Foundation @Sharedhealthgm]

. @SglParentRights are running a survey into single parents' experiences of the private rental sector.

All data is anonymous and will be used to lobby for change and tackle single parent discrimination.

Please complete the survey here: https://t.co/auG9RRLGWU

[Ellamental Mama @EllamentalMama]

@AirCanada You've left me and 3 kids stranded not even trying to book us an alternative. Please DM with assistance asap

[Ellamental Mama @EllamentalMama]

@AirCanada You've left me and 3 kids stranded not even trying to book us an alternative. Please DM with assistance asap

[Ellamental Mama @EllamentalMama]

@savechildrenuk @ChildrensComm Please sign the petition to end the 2 child limit here https://t.co/tgrFSOnJ2m

[KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner @Kwajotweneboa]

Too many single parents are being shut out of the rental market — just for being single parents.

@SglParentRights is running a survey to expose this discrimination and push for change.

If this is you, or someone you support, take 5 mins to fill it in 👇
🔗 https://t.co/RcL43qRXCb

[Single Parent Rights @SglParentRights]

Single parent? Private renter?

Let us know your experiences in our survey here: https://t.co/jF1e6WmhfE

All data will be anonymous and used to influence policy change to tackle single parent discrimination in housing.

Pls RT

[Single Parent Rights @SglParentRights]

Child Poverty is set to continue rising.

Free School Meals for all children on UC is a positive start, but more MUST be done.

Please sign and share this petition against child poverty to help the Government to make the right decision come the Budget:

https://t.co/IDSLYZcYaw

[OnlyDads @OnlyDads]

One for our followers .

Please take a look and share if you can…

[Single Parent Rights @SglParentRights]

4 in 10 single parent families live in poverty.

Today we wrote to the Secretaries of State for Education and DWP to urge them to include single parent families in their Child Poverty Strategy process to end this:

📨https://t.co/y9EOOUq4cO

#ChildPoverty #SingleParentFamilies

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Pleased to say it seems this is NOT happening. @Telegraph reporting Treasury has now ruled out getting rid of the council tax single person discount (having previously not ruled it out when asked) in the coming budget.

[Single Parent Rights @SglParentRights]

This week @AngelaRayner introduced the #RentersRightsBill

While it contains some promising changes, we're concerned that single parent discrimination isn't outlawed. That's why we've written to the Sec of State to address this.

Learn more here:
https://t.co/Yxw0W9ctXK

Pls RT

[Libby Liburd @LibbyLiburd]

My next project! I’m exploring the links between regeneration in east London and the impacts of housing insecurity on wellbeing. I’m running a focus group discussion next week, there’s just two places left, please get in touch if you’d like to be involved. All details below…

[Single Parent Rights @SglParentRights]

Our founder talks about the realities of campaigning on the 2 child benefit cap as a single parent of 3 in the @BigIssue

This policy causes poverty AND breeds stigma which enables poverty & social isolation to thrive.

It must go in the next budget.

https://t.co/Tt07AZW9oK

[Single Parent Rights @SglParentRights]

There's been much talk of the impact of the 2 child benefit cap. But what of those who dare not leave DV because of this policy?

Thanks to our member for sharing her story.

The 2 child benefit limit has to go in the first government budget.
https://t.co/waq0FCh0jC

[Single Parent Rights @SglParentRights]

This article is brilliant at getting across the issues with the 2 child benefit limit.

Thanks so much to our member for sharing her story. Like so many impacted she's a strong, independent and loving mother who deserves to be given support.
https://t.co/c2RHmT5PkN

[Ellamental Mama @EllamentalMama]

Solo parenting for a specific time period vs solo parenting for eternity are worlds apart.

If we don't have the language, how can we be understood?

Thanks to @GenevieveRobert for writing about this sensitively.

[The i Paper @theipaper]

💬 ‘No, you don’t know what solo parenting feels like because your partner is away’

⬇️ People forget that they’re comparing their short-term situation with solo parents’ long term. It's not the same, says @GenevieveRobert

https://t.co/N6oIeybpC7

[Ellamental Mama @EllamentalMama]

@emmacantrell_ @JonesSmith71244 @CPAGUK Exactly. And the kids losing out become tax payers so if they can't benefit now when in need should they be obliged to pay in as adults???

[Ellamental Mama @EllamentalMama]

@JonesSmith71244 @CPAGUK Why's it insane? Isn't it insane to leave kids in poverty. How are they anything to do with their parents behaviour before their birth?