Tackling child poverty: second year progress report - annex C

Annex C: child poverty among lone parent families.


Child maintenance

For some single parents, financial pressures are made worse by the lack of child maintenance paid by their child's other parent. It has been reported that over half (60%) of single parents do not have a child maintenance arrangement in place, through the government-run Child Maintenance Service, a court order or a private arrangement.[30]

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