Consultation outcome

Child Maintenance: a new compliance and arrears strategy

From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published
14 December 2017
Last updated
12 July 2018 — See all updates
This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
This consultation has concluded

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Government response to Child Maintenance: a new compliance and arrears strategy

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Ymateb y Llywodraeth: Cynhaliaeth Plant: Strategaeth Newydd ar Gyfer Cydymffurfiaeth ac Ôl-ddyledion

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Detail of outcome

We published the government response to this consultation on 12 July 2018.

Original consultation

Summary

This consultation seeks views on a new child maintenance compliance and arrears strategy.

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

This consultation is to inform the government’s new child maintenance compliance and arrears strategy, which we aim to publish in 2018.

The proposals in this consulation seek to strengthen the current Child Maintenance Service (CMS), which was introduced in 2012.

The proposals include:

  • improvements to child maintenance calculations and new compliance measures
  • stronger collection and enforcement measures
  • a request for further ideas on collection and enforcement
  • how to deal with the historic debt that accrued on Child Support Agency (CSA) cases

The consultation is open to:

  • voluntary and community sector organisations
  • clients of both the CSA and CMS schemes
  • members of the general public

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Child Maintenance: a new compliance and arrears strategy

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Child Maintenance: a new compliance and arrears strategy methodology paper

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Cynhaliaeth Plant: strategaeth newydd ar gyfer cydymffurfiaeth ac ôl-ddyledion

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Cynhaliaeth Plant: papur methodoleg strategaeth newydd ar gyfer cydymffurfiaeth ac ôlddyledion rhagfyr

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Updates to this page

Published 14 December 2017
Last updated 12 July 2018 show all updates

  1. Published the government response to this consultation in English and Welsh.

  2. Updated address and email address for 'ways to respond'.

  3. First published.

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