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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

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The project -
‘Empower: lone parents building confidence and accessing learning
(Reference:GRP/08/59C)’ – 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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The partners were
drawn from a range of organisations working with lone parent clients in the
public, private and charitable sectors. In addition to Gingerbread NI, they
included SHIA-V, a German lone parent organisation, Caritas Vilnius, a charitable
organisation supporting vulnerable groups in Lithuania, as well as further
education providers: Anniesland College in Scotland, WSINF in Poland and ASIMAG
in Spain. All partners shared an interest in improving their understanding of
the needs of this group and particularly in helping to facilitate their access
to learning and employment opportunities.