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Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service

Inquiry

Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service is the third and final part of the Committee’s wider inquiry into children in poverty, following on from the Measurement and targets, and no recourse to public funds.

The Committee looked into:

  • How many children in the UK live in separated families? What proportion of these children are living in poverty?
  • What prevents parents from establishing family-based arrangements?
  • What barriers are there for parents when trying to access support from Child Maintenance Service?
  • How can DWP improve the CMS to better support children living in poverty?

Read the call for evidence to learn more about the inquiry.

Read our report.

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was Friday 8 July 2022.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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Sixth Report - Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service
Inquiry Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service
HC 272
Report
Response to this report
Seventh Special Report - Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service: Government Response to the Committee’s Sixth Report
HC 1675
Special Report
Seventh Special Report - Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service: Government Response to the Committee’s Sixth Report
Inquiry Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service
HC 1675
Special Report
Large Print - Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service: Government Response to the Committee’s Sixth Report
Inquiry Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service
HC 1675
Special Report
Correspondence with the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State relating to Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service
Inquiry Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service
Correspondence
Correspondence with Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State relating to Children in Poverty: Child Maintenance Service Report
Inquiry Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service
Correspondence
Correspondence with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State relating to Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service
Inquiry Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service
Correspondence

Oral evidence transcripts

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18 January 2023
Inquiry Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service
Witnesses Arlene Sugden (Director, Child Maintenance Service at Department for Work and Pensions), Viscount Younger of Leckie (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at Department for Work and Pensions), and Hilda Massey (Director, State Pensions, Child Maintenance and Devolution at Department for Work and Pensions)
Oral Evidence
2 November 2022
Inquiry Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service
Witnesses Joshua Reddaway (Director Work and Pensions Value for Money at National Audit Office)
Oral Evidence
19 October 2022
Inquiry Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service
Witnesses Dr Christine Davies (Honorary Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at Royal Holloway University of London), Dr Jon Symonds (Senior Lecturer in Social Work with Children and Families at University of Bristol), Professor Esther Dermott (Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at University of Bristol), and Dr Mia Hakovirta (Department of Social Research at Turku University, Finland)
Oral Evidence
Anonymised (CMS0031)
Anonymised (CMS0002)
Split the Difference (CMS0029)

Other publications

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  • Email: workpencom@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 8976 | 020 7219 1679 (Media)
  • Address: Work and Pensions Committee | House of Commons | London | SW1A 0AA