Hi everyone, I'm jagc. I just thought I'd introduce myself as I've helping the OneSpace team out for a few weeks now. It's been great working here and seeing how hard everyone works behind the scenes!
I'm not a single parent myself, but I'm interested in the problems single parents face today. I'm especially concerned with how single parent families are affected by these tough times, what with government cuts and increasing prices, and where families find the best support to cope with these challenges.
I look forward to talking to you all on the forums and hearing your ideas about this! From what I've read so far you really are all great and give each other really valuable support and advice!
Jagc
Hellojagc and welcome to the boards!
Great to know that you are working with One Space 
You mention that you are interested in the way that recent economic conditions are affecting single parents. I wonder if board members would like to say what they think about this and how it has affected them?
Hope you will join in some other threads,jagc!
Hi jagc and welcome from me too
I hope you get a great response to your thread, it might be worth taking a look in work and training or benefit changes as these are where some of the threads where users post with how recent changes are affecting them.
Hi Anna, Louise and Sally,
Thanks for the welcome :) It'd be good hear from board members about their experiences and I'll be reading those forums as you say Sally
Hope everyone is having a fun snow day - I've got a big snow man outside my house, the snow is so deep!
Hi jagc
Snowy here too...
Your snowman sounds great! Did you build it or was it kids in the street? sparklinglime, have your children done the honours yet?
The only role I played was putting an old scarf on it :)
Oh shame! That wonderful cartoon always made my eldest cry...
There are some threads about the Work Programme with lots of personal stories you may like to read. I wonder if people on the boards would tell us:what is the single most difficult thing about being a single parent in 2013 in your view?
Hi jagc. Just want to welcome you along
Hi jagc
Welcome to the One Space forums
Good to have you online.
I am sure that everyone here online will give you a warm welcome as you have been brilliant here in the office and we are a friendly bunch!
The work that you will be doing, raising the ongoing issues that single parents face with all the current economic changes, will hopefully inform some powers that be!
Looking forward to having you around