In summary: Our inquiry has found a number of issues with the Child Maintenance Service that need to be addressed. Receiving parents continue to report great frustration at ineffective and slow enforcement. Paying parents have described distress and being pushed into poverty by the unaffordability of child maintenance payments. This harms the effectiveness of a system with an important role to play in tackling child poverty in separated families. (Paragraph 116) 50 Children in poverty: Child ...

In summary: Our inquiry has found a number of issues with the Child Maintenance Service that need to be addressed. Receiving parents continue to report great frustration at ineffective and slow enforcement. Paying parents have described distress and being pushed into poverty by the unaffordability of child maintenance payments. This harms the effectiveness of a system with an important role to play in tackling child poverty in separated families. (Paragraph 116) 50 Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service Type: conclusion | Number: 31 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: We would like to thank the Committee for conducting such a thorough inquiry into the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) as part of their work looking at children in poverty. The CMS can play an effective role in helping lift children out of poverty. Through both family-based arrangements (FBAs) and CMS