Giving Compass' Take:

• Nearly half of working single parents in the U.K. live in poverty and that number is expected to increase in the coming years. 

• How can policies better support single-parent households? What role can philanthropy play in providing sustainable, long-term solutions? 

• Learn how Colorado is engaging absent parents in child support to help single parents and their children thrive. 

A third of children with a working single parent live in poverty with some parents struggling to put food on the table, a charity has found.

Research by the charity Gingerbread suggested single parents are "trapped" in low-paid and insecure jobs.

Although the number of employed single parents is at a record high, the risk of child poverty among these families has risen to its highest in 20 years.

The study, released on Wednesday to mark the charity's 100th anniversary, revealed nearly half of single parents - both working and unemployed - live in relative poverty. This figure is expected to rise sharply to 63% by 2021.

The report found jobs with decent pay and flexibility are "few and far between" for single parents.

There are around 1.7 million single-parent families in the UK, with one in four children living with one parent. Nine in 10 single-parent families are headed by a woman.

Read the full article on single-parent poverty at BBC