It can't have escaped your attention that there is a General Election looming. Labour (if it wins) has pledged to review the way the Child Maintenance Service is working.
Child maintenance is financial support towards your child’s everyday living costs when you’ve separated from the other parent. You and your ex-partner can arrange child maintenance yourself if you can agree. This is called a ‘family-based arrangement’, it is a private way to sort out child maintenance with the parents arranging everything themselves and where no-one else has to be involved. The Child Maintenance Service is for when you and the other parent can’t agree to a family-based arrangement.
Gingerbread, which offers advice to and campaigns for single parents, has welcomed Labour's pledge.
Gingerbread Chief Executive Fiona Weir said:
"We welcome Labour's commitment to carry out an immediate review of the new Child Maintenance Service and its system of charging.
"Getting regular child maintenance payments can make a huge difference to children, but less than half of separated families have any arrangement in place."
Child maintenance is something that we are involved in through our Family Department. If you have any concerns or worries in this area, do please get in touch with us. Remember that we offer FREE advice in our weekly clinics on Thursdays in Cowbridge, so you can just come and pick our brains. Give us a ring on 01446 774151 to reserve your place in the clinic, or email me
Child maintenance is financial support towards our child’s everyday living costs when we have separated from the other parent.
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