Separated families statistics: April 2014 to March 2022 (experimental)
Statistics on separated families and their child maintenance arrangements.
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The latest release of these statistics can be found in the collection of Separated families statistics.
These statistics provide estimates of the following:
- the number of separated families in Great Britain and the number of children in those families
- the proportion of separated families with a child maintenance arrangement and whether this arrangement is statutory or non-statutory
- the total amount of child maintenance received by Parents With Care, by arrangement type
- the net impact of child maintenance payments on the number of children in low income households
- characteristics of separated parents and the impacts of child maintenance payments on where their households are represented in the income distribution