Related media articles and publications
Last updated: 10/01/2024
Read relevant publications from the project partners on the topic of child maintenance.
2016 – Bairns Come First: Understanding Child Maintenance in Fife
This research sets to explore and understand the issue of child maintenance for individuals and services within the Fife area.
Download Understanding Child Maintenance in Fife2023 – Child Maintenance During a Cost-of-Living Crisis
This research was conducted by the Poverty Alliance with Fife Gingerbread. This work sought to provide understandings of families in Fife but provides insights that will have resonance and relevance across the UK
Download Child Maintenance During a Cost-of-Living Crisis
2023 – Gingerbread announces losing Judicial Review related to the CMS
In 2023, Gingerbread was granted permission from the courts to intervene in a legal case brought by a group of single parents in England to challenge the failure of the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to take “proper or effective steps” to recover maintenance payments from absent parents.
