Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:38 pm on 6 July 2021.
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Minister, research from the Learning and Work Institute and Gingerbread suggests that the pandemic has hit single parents very hard—loss of work and income, home education, and loss of childcare and caring support. These are workers typically concentrated in low-paid and part-time work and in those industries hit hardest by the pandemic—144,000 lone parent families in Wales, 118,000 of which are lone mother families. Could I ask the Government what support is being made available to lone parent families across Wales as part of the Government's COVID recovery programme? Diolch.