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Private Maintenance Agreements & Child Support |
3 May 2007 |
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 Government reforms urge more couples to sort it out privately but is that unrealistic?
The Government’s bill on child support reform is shortly due before the Commons. It places a new emphasis on encouraging private maintenance arrangements but lone parent organisations are concerned that CMEC, the new body to replace the CSA, is not giving out a clear enough message that it will still step in and support single parents when necessary. Over half of all lone parents in the UK are currently raising children without child maintenance, so is the government being unrealistic, and ignoring the best interests of children, in arguing for more private maintenance agreements?
Lord Mackenzie, Minister for Child Support, and Janet Allbeson, Policy Officer for One Parent Families will be discussing the proposed reforms.
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Child Maintenance White Paper
One Parent Families
National Association for Child Support ActionDisclaimer
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