Guidance

Child maintenance arrangements made after speaking to CM Options: information and methodology

Information on the quarterly surveys and the annual longitudinal survey of child maintenance outcomes for parents that have spoken to Child Maintenance (CM) Options.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 3 August 2016
• Last updated: 6 November 2019 — See all updates

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Child maintenance arrangements made after speaking to CM Options: background information and methodology

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The Child maintenance arrangements made after speaking to CM Options statistics allow people to see:

• the types of arrangements parents are trying after speaking to the CM Options service
• the number of children who may benefit from these arrangements

Published 3 August 2016
Last updated 6 November 2019 + show all updates

1. 6 November 2019

   Added a note about future releases of these statistics.

2. 6 September 2018

   Published a revised version of the document (still dated July 2018). Updated to reflect a change of terminology - the publication no longer uses ‘children covered’ and instead uses ‘children on arrangements’. This means the number of children who a paying parent has a child maintenance arrangement for. Also published an HTML version of the same document.

3. 31 July 2018

   Published a revised background and methodology document, updated to support the July 2018 release of CM Options statistics (data to March 2018). The revised version is dated July 2018.

4. 25 April 2018

   Published a revised background and methodology document, updated to support the April 2018 release of child maintenance arrangements made after speaking to CM Options statistics (data to December 2017). The revised version is dated April 2018.

5. 23 January 2018

   Published a revised background and methodology document, updated to support the January 2018 release of child maintenance arrangements made after speaking to CM Options statistics (data to Sept 2017). The revised version is dated January 2018.

6. 31 October 2017

   Published a revised background and methodology document, updated to support the October release of effective family-based child maintenance arrangements statistics (data to June 2017).

7. 1 August 2017

   Changed the description of the methodology for calculating the stock of effective family-based arrangements and the number of children benefiting from these.

8. 7 February 2017

   Added revised effective family-based arrangement background and methodology document with various changes throughout.

9. 3 November 2016

   Revised effective family-based arrangement background and methodology document with new table on page 4.

10. 3 August 2016

    First published.