Media Releases

Below is a list of the Media Releases issued by the Commission.

• New powers to stop parents dodging maintenance arrears.

  12 July 2010

  The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission has begun using tough new powers to halt or reverse the sale and transfer of assets by parents attempting to dodge financial responsibility for their children.

• Grandparents as influential as professional advisers on separation issues

  29 March 2010

  New guide helps them to make sure their grandchildren are provided for.

• More than 800,000 children benefit from payment of child maintenance

  27 January 2010

  Latest quarterly figures show continuing progress.

• Deidre Sanders launches campaign to promote Child Maintenance Options

  18 January 2010

  Top agony aunt backs support service for separating parents.

• Children missing out on maintenance as separated parents don't know where to turn

  14 January 2010

  Now a free and impartial service offers information and support for both parents.

• Welfare Reform Act means tougher powers for Commission

  16 November 2009

  Tougher enforcement powers to deal with parents who fail to take financial responsibility for their children are on the way following Royal Assent of the new Welfare Reform Act.

• Child Support Agency progress marks first year under Commission.

  28 October 2009

  More children are benefiting from child maintenance, with more parents paying this quarter than in any previous quarter.

• More children than ever benefiting from child maintenance.

  29 July 2009

  Almost 794,000 children are benefiting as the Child Support Agency collected or arranged £1,136 million in child maintenance across Great Britain over the past twelve months.

  National Statistics released today show between July 2008 and June 2009, the CSA also continued to recover unpaid maintenance for children, with £157m in arrears collected in Great Britain in the last year.

• Child maintenance is biggest separation headache, say region's parents – but most are going without expert help.

  7 July 2009

  Now a free and impartial service offers information and support for both parents.

  A lack of knowledge about how to sort out child maintenance issues could be adding to the heartache of separation and divorce and unnecessarily jeopardising children's financial future.

• Child Support Agency marks three years of progress.

  29 April 2009

  Strong performance numbers complete the CSA's Operational Improvement Plan as clients praise caseworkers for professional service.

  The Child Support Agency has collected or arranged more than £100 million in maintenance in a single month for the first time in its history.

• Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission selects new IT system for future maintenance scheme.

  07 April 2009

  The new state child maintenance scheme that will replace the two schemes currently provided by the Child Support Agency has taken an important step forward.

  Suppliers have been appointed to provide the computer system that will underpin the 'future' scheme now being developed by the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.

• Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission brings three hundred new jobs to Leeds HQ

  06 March 2009

  The new public body responsible for child maintenance in Great Britain is to be based in Leeds.

  Around three hundred new jobs will be created at the city centre headquarters of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.

• Child Maintenance collections still increasing

  28 January 2009

  The first quarterly performance statistics since last October's child maintenance rule changes show the Child Support Agency (CSA) is continuing to deliver more money to parents with care.

  During 2008, the CSA collected or arranged a total of £1,112 million - an increase of £137 million from the total for 2007 and up from £798 million in the year to March 2005.

• Child Maintenance: Choice for all parents starts today

  27 October 2008

  More money for low income single parents as compulsion to use CSA ends.

  Significant changes to Britain's child maintenance system come into effect from today. They extend choice to more parents and deliver more money to low income families.