Policy paper

Child maintenance reforms: 30 month review of charging

The 30 month review considers the impact of the introduction of charging in the Child Maintenance Service.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 3 August 2017

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Documents

Child maintenance reforms: 30 month review of charging

Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-0001-9, Cm. 9481

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Child maintenance reforms: 30 month review of charging (print-ready PDF)

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Families Need Fathers response to the 30 month review

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Gingerbread response to the 30 month review

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Public and Commercial Services Union response to the 30 month review

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Scottish Women’s Aid response to the 30 month review

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Details

Application fees and collection charges were introduced to the Child Maintenance Service in June 2014. Section 141 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 required the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to review the impact of charging no later than 30 months after it was introduced, meaning by the end of December 2016.

The review, which consisted of independent research and official statistics, was published by December 2016. This report draws together the findings of the published research and statistics and the department’s response to these findings.

List of publications comprising the 30 month review

Research publications

• Survey of Child Maintenance Service Direct Pay clients – published December 2016
• Survey of Child Support Agency case closure outcomes – published December 2016
• Evaluating Child Support Agency case closure communications (ad hoc report 39) – published December 2016
• Child Maintenance Service exit survey (ad hoc report 42) – published December 2016
• Help and support for separated families innovation fund evaluation – published September 2016
• Attitudes and behaviours of self-employed child maintenance clients and barriers to paying child maintenance – published October 2015
• Long-term separated parents: developing support to encourage child maintenance arrangements – published August 2015

Statistical publications

• Child Maintenance Options service client satisfaction: April 2014 to September 2016 – published December 2016
• Child Maintenance Service client satisfaction: up to August 2016 – published December 2016
• Effective family-based child maintenance arrangements following contact with CM Options data for June 2016 – published November 2016
• 2012 statutory child maintenance: August 2013 to August 2016 (experimental) – published October 2016
• Estimates of the separated family population to December 2014 (experimental statistics) – published October 2016
• Sorting out separation website statistics: December 2012 to 2015 – published October 2016
• Effective family-based child maintenance arrangements: preliminary estimates, data up to March 2016 – published August 2016
• Child Support Agency case closures: June 2014 to December 2015 – published May 2016
• Child Support Agency quarterly summary of statistics for Great Britain December 2014 – published February 2015

Published 3 August 2017