Child maintenance reform

Services

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Child maintenance: paying through the Child Maintenance Service
- Detailed guide
- 6 September 2022
- Department for Work and Pensions
Child maintenance: liability orders
- Detailed guide
- 1 October 2013
- Department for Work and Pensions
Child maintenance: how a child’s living arrangements can affect payments: factsheet
- Guidance
- 27 October 2023
- Department for Work and Pensions
Child maintenance: how we review cases every year: leaflet
- Guidance
- 8 April 2024
- Department for Work and Pensions
Child maintenance: how we work out payments: leaflet
- Guidance
- 30 October 2023
- Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance consultation extended
- 31 July 2024
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Press release
Clampdown on non-paying parents Child Maintenance consultation
- 8 May 2024
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Press release
Child Maintenance Service reformed to crack down on parents who refuse to pay
- 12 February 2024
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Press release
Government launches new crackdown on parents who refuse to pay child maintenance
- 2 October 2023
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Press release
Swifter sanctions on unpaid child maintenance
- 20 July 2023
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Press release

Independent review of the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) response to domestic abuse
- 3 February 2023
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Independent report
Direct Pay research 2017 to 2019
- 14 July 2022
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Research
Child Maintenance Service statistics: data to March 2021 (experimental)
- 29 June 2021
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Official statistics
Separated families population statistics: April 2014 to March 2018 (experimental)
- 26 March 2020
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Official statistics
Child Maintenance Service statistics: data to December 2019 (experimental)
- 25 March 2020
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Official statistics

Child Maintenance: Improving the collection and transfer of payments
- 31 July 2024
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Open consultation
- Date closed 30 September 2024
Child Maintenance: Accelerating Enforcement
- 12 February 2024
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 24 November 2023
Child Maintenance: modernising and improving our service
- 14 March 2022
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 06 August 2021
Child Maintenance: a new compliance and arrears strategy
- 12 July 2018
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 08 February 2018
Government response to the independent review of the Child Maintenance Service response to domestic abuse
- 19 January 2023
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Policy paper

Child maintenance: client funds account 2021 to 2022
- 21 December 2022
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Corporate report
Child maintenance: client funds account 2020 to 2021
- 16 December 2021
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Corporate report
Child maintenance: client funds account 2019 to 2020
- 16 December 2020
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Corporate report
Child maintenance: client funds account 2017 to 2018
- 13 December 2018
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Corporate report
Child maintenance: client funds account 2015 to 2016
- 16 December 2016
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Corporate report