Separated families statistics: April 2014 to March 2024
Statistics on separated families and their child maintenance arrangements. These statistics also include additional tables on the characteristics of separated families by child maintenance arrangement type.
Applies to England, Scotland and Wales
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These statistics provide estimates of the following:
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the number of separated families in Great Britain and the number of children in those families
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the proportion of separated families with a child maintenance arrangement and whether this arrangement is statutory or non-statutory
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the total amount of child maintenance received by parents with care, by arrangement type
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the net impact of child maintenance payments on the number of children in low-income households
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characteristics of separated parents and the impacts of child maintenance payments on where their households are represented in the income distribution
This release includes the following additional estimates of the characteristics of parents with care and non-resident parents, by child maintenance arrangement type:
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gender
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age
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reported disability status
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ethnic group
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marital status
This release also contains revisions to data for the 2022 to 2023 financial year. The following tables are affected:
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Table 2: The proportion of separated families with a child maintenance arrangement
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Tables 6-9: The position of separated parent households in the Great Britain income distribution
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Table 10: The percentage of children in parent with care households who remain in low income after child maintenance payments
These changes result from two factors:
1. Use of a new question response in the survey to help inform which parents have non-statutory arrangements
2. A revision to income data for 2022 to 2023 due to the exclusion of one element of the low- income benefits and tax credits Cost of Living Payment