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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.