evidence: - The group with the highest poverty throughout the last decade and worst impacted by welfare reform have been lone parents[7] in Northern Ireland; of which 91% are women[8]. [...] - Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK without a government-funded Childcare Lone parents and families with a disabled child are less likely to be able to afford formal childcare and face further barriers to employment[11] [...] Briefing Papers SN06758, http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06758/SN06758.pdf [7] UK Women’s Budget Group, (2016), ‘A cumulative gender impact assessment of ten years of austerity policies’,https://wbg.org.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2016/11/De_HenauReed_WBG_GIAtaxben_briefing_2016_03_06.pdf [8] Women’s Regional Consortium, (2019), ‘Impact of Ongoing Austerity: Women’s Perspectives’, http://www.womensregionalconsortiumni.org.uk/sites/default/files/Impact%20of%20Ongoing%20Austerity%20Women%27s%20Perspectives.pdf [9] Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (2018), ‘Types of Families Most Likely to Need a Foodbank’, https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/speri-foodbanks-trussell-trust-1.771247 [10] UK Women’s Budget Group, (2018), ‘Disabled Women and Austerity’, https://wbg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Disabled-women-October-2018-w-cover-2.pdf [11] Employers for Childcare, (2019), ‘Northern Ireland Childcare Survey 2019’, https://www.employersforchildcare.org/app/uploads/2019/06/Northern-Ireland-Childcare-Survey-2019-FINAL.pdf [12] Women’s Policy Group NI, (2019), ‘Women’s Manifesto: General Election 2019’, http://www.womensregionalconsortiumni.org.uk/sites/default/files/Women%27sManifesto2019.pdf [13] PSNI, (2019), ‘Domestic Abuse Incidents’, https://www.psni.police.uk/inside-psni/Statistics/domestic-abuse-statistics/