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Child Maintenance Service

See our research and submissions to consultations below.

Transforming Child Maintenance

Transforming Child Maintenance is a three year partnership project between Fife Gingerbread, Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Scotland, and One Parent Families Scotland, funded by The Robertson Trust. We are working with parents, practitioners, and policymakers to make the case for a fairer system for children and families.

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Does the UK CMS deliver value for money for children?

See our submission on the value for money for children of the UK Child Maintenance service after consulting single parent families.

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Child maintenance: improving enforcement through the commencement of curfew orders

Read our submission to consultation from the Department of Work and Pensions on using curfew orders to enforce child maintenance payments.

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Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill

Read One Parent Families Scotland and Scottish Women’s Aid briefing paper on the UK Government bill on improving the experiences of survivors accessing the Child Maintenance Service.

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