CSA reform: “Ministers must get it right,” say campaigners
16.11.05

The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has repeated its calls for the Child Support Agency (CSA) to be reformed, following comments by Tony Blair at Prime Minister’s Questions this afternoon.

Kate Green, Chief Executive of CPAG, said:

“CPAG welcomes the Prime Minister’s recognition that the CSA needs urgent reform, but the hundreds of thousands of parents and children who are being let down by the system and all too often go without cannot wait any longer.

“While the CSA remains in its current shambolic state it will continue to fail the very people who are most in need and undermine the Government’s own commitment to end child poverty.

“The new CSA Chief Executive must get a grip of the agency and Ministers must deliver their long-awaited plans for reform as soon as possible. The CSA has failed to deliver since it was set up in 1993, so it’s vital that this time the Government gets it right.”

 

For further information please contact:
Alex Belardinelli
CPAG Press Officer
Tel. 020 7812 5216 or 07816 909302
abelardinelli@cpag.org.uk