The figures, commissioned by the charity from the Government's Labour Force Survey, compare the single parent employment rate in April to June this year with the same period last year.
While overall this rate increased by 0.4 per cent to 56.7 per cent during that period, those with younger children are still being squeezed out of the job market.
Between April and June this year just 36 per cent of single parents with a child aged two were in work, slightly down on the same period in 2008. The rate for those with a youngest child aged 13 is now up, to 72 per cent.
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