Gingerbread (charity) single parents return to the workplace. Gingerbread’s policy and research team works with elected representatives and other policy makers to influence policy and practice on issues relating to single parents. Gingerbread has campaigned against negative stereotyping of single parent families. Their ‘Let’s lose the labels’ and ‘Single parents: you’re brilliant’ campaigns both challenged stigma against single parents. Recently, Gingerbread has campaigned against government proposals to charge parents to use the Child Support Agency, and against cuts to Legal Aid proposed by the Welfare Reform Bill. The records of Gingerbread are held at The Women's Library at the Library of the
Alliance of Concerned Teachers Alliance of Concerned Teachers The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT-Teachers) is a progressive, militant and nationalist organization of teachers, academic non-teaching personnel and non-academic non-teaching personnel established on June 26, 1982 in the Philippines. It is the largest non-traditional teachers’ organization in the country which works for the economic and political well-being of teachers and all other education workers as well as for genuine social transformation. ACT defines its objectives in the following terms: Membership in ACT is open to national and regional organizations whose membership or composition include federations, unions, alliances, cooperatives, political, disciplinal or interest associations of teachers