Child maintenance consultation launched today - Turn2us

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a consultation, Supporting separated families; securing children's futures, on the Government's vision for transforming the child maintenance system.

The consultation sets out details of the DWP's proposals for co-ordinating support services for separated and separating families and outlines the way in which the new statutory child maintenance scheme will work.

They want to hear from anyone who is interested in child maintenance and wider family and children's issues, including:

• parents who live apart
• representative organisations for parents who live apart or their children
• representatives of the legal profession
• organisations that represent families and children
• members of the general public with an interest in child maintenance issues.

The consultation is open until 26 October 2012.

Participate in the Supporting separated families; securing children's futures consultation (link opens in a new window)