Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics

December 2008

This National Statistics publication is released on 28 January 2009 according to arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, established as a non-departmental public body under the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008, is responsible for the child maintenance system in Great Britain.

The Commission assumed responsibility for the Child Support Agency (CSA) from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on 1 November 2008.

This publication, produced by the DWP Information Directorate on behalf of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, contains the most up-to-date tables and breakdowns on the CSA’s two existing statutory child maintenance schemes.

The data covers the period both before and after the Commission assumed responsibility for the CSA on 1 November 2008. The data also covers the period both before and after the removal of the compulsion on parents with care who are claiming benefits to use the CSA to collect or arrange maintenance payments. The change, which came into force on October 27th 2008, affects around 400,000 CSA clients who can now choose to make private maintenance arrangements with the non-resident parent. Previous Quarterly Summary of Statistics can be found on the DWP site.

Read the Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary Statistics first release.

Contents

Table 1	Status of All Cases Being Handled by the Agency
Table 2.1	Current Scheme intake, clearances and uncleared work (both schemes)
Table 2.2	Initial Clearance Types
Table 2.3	Initial Maintenance Outcomes
Table 2.4	Reasons for closure
Table 2.5	Conversions
Table 2.6	Current Scheme Payments, by Month of Payment Arrangement
Table 3	Current Scheme Clearances, by Month of Application
Table 4	Age of Current Scheme Applications at Clearance, by Month of Clearance
Table 5	Age of Uncleared Current Scheme Applications (scheme to date)
Table 6	Status of Assessed/Calculated Cases
Table 7.1	Case Compliance
Table 7.2	Maintenance Outcomes
Table 8.1	Collection Rate
Table 8.2	Fully Compliant Cases as a Percentage of all Compliant Cases
Table 9	Method of Collection: Usage
Table 10	Method of Collection: Compliance
Table 11	Cash Compliance
Table 12	Arrears Collected as a Percentage of Arrears Accrued
Table 13.1	Percentage of Cases where the Parent With Care is on Income Support or Jobseeker's Allowance (income based) with a positive maintenance outcome
Table 13.2	Benefit Receipt for Parents with Care and Non-resident Parents on the Current Scheme
Table 14	Payment of Child Maintenance Premium
Table 15	Weekly Maintenance Liability, by Scheme
Table 16	Telephony Performance
Table 17	Accuracy of Maintenance Calculations and Assessments
Table 18	Appeals
Table 19.1	Staffing
Table 19.2	Staff Turnover
Table 19.3	Sick Absence
Table 19.4	Administration Costs
Table 19.5	Maintenance Collected
Table 20	Clerical Cases
Table 21	Enforcement Activity
Table 22	Debt
Table 23	Age of Non-resident Parent by age of Parent/Person with Care: December 2008
Table 24	Gender of Non-resident Parent and Parent/Person with Care: December 2008
Table 25	Region of residence of Non-resident Parent by region of residence of Parent/Person with Care: December 2008
Table 26	Living Distance Apart of Non-resident Parent and Parent/Person with Care: December 2008
Table 27	Employment Status of Non-resident Parent: December 2008
Table 28	Number of Children Receiving Maintenance or with a maintenance direct agreement in place
Table 29	Current Scheme Changes of circumstances: Intake, clearances and uncleared work

Local Authority and Parliamentary Constituency supplement

Table S1a	Local Authority of Parent/Person with Care: December 2008
Table S1b	Parliamentary Constituencies of Parent/Person with Care: December 2008
Table S2a	Uncleared Applications by Local Authority of Parent/Person with Care: December 2008
Table S2b	Uncleared Applications by Parliamentary Constituencies of Parent/Person with Care: December 2008
Table S3a	Current Scheme case compliance by Local Authority of Non-resident Parent: December 2008
Table S3b	Current Scheme case compliance by Parliamentary Constituency of Non-resident Parent: December 2008
Table S4a	Current Scheme maintenance outcomes by Local Authority of Non-resident Parent: December 2008
Table S4b	Current Scheme maintenance outcomes by Parliamentary Constituency of Non-resident Parent: December 2008

Tables

CSA tables in Microsoft Excel format (1.2Mb)

Supplementary tables in Microsoft Excel format (500kb)

Pre-release access

The Pre-release access to Official Statistics Order 2008 requires that each department will publish job titles and the organisation of who has been granted pre-release access for each official statistic. View the pre-release recipients of the Commission's Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary Statistics.