For many receiving parents child maintenance payments are vital to avoiding or at least stymying the effects of hardship but enforcement is currently slow and often ineffective. We have heard that, while enforcement on Collect and Pay has improved, for many receiving parents enforcement remains ineffective in securing maintenance. We support the aims of the Child Support (Enforcement) Bill to allow for more timely enforcement of maintenance payments and regard effective enforcement as remaini...

For many receiving parents child maintenance payments are vital to avoiding or at least stymying the effects of hardship but enforcement is currently slow and often ineffective. We have heard that, while enforcement on Collect and Pay has improved, for many receiving parents enforcement remains ineffective in securing maintenance. We support the aims of the Child Support (Enforcement) Bill to allow for more timely enforcement of maintenance payments and regard effective enforcement as remaining a key priority for improvement. In its response to this Report, the Government should set out plans to improve the effectiveness and speed of current Type: recommendation | Number: 4 | Paragraph: 34 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: We know the vast majority of paying parents want to do the right thing and support their children, but the Government shares the Committee’s view that effective enforcement should be a key priority for those few paying parents who willingl