The Child Support Bill, announced in this year’s Queen’s Speech, will see the Child Support Agency (CSA) scrapped after 13 years of largely fruitless service. In its place will be a smaller body which, on the one hand, will intervene only when families cannot reach agreement and, on the other, will have greater powers to recover maintenance.
The obvious question is: why essentially replace like with like? Is it not time to return the decision-making to the judges who historically decided what maintenance should be paid for children whose families break up?
