Response to the resignation of the Chief Executive of the CSA

Leading children's charity says CSA system 'is a mess'
17.11.04

Children in poverty are losing out

Responding to the report from MPs into the Child Support Agency and the resignation of the CSA's Chief Executive, the Child Poverty Action Group's Chief Executive Kate Green said:

'Whoever is in charge, the Child Support Agency is a mess and children in poverty are losing out.

'Effective child support systems are vital to address the high levels of child poverty that children of lone parents suffer.

'Other countries have child support managed successfully by the state and there is no reason why it shouldn't be the same in the UK.

'The most recent figures show that over 50% of lone-parent families live in income poverty – these families rely on child support payments and because the system is failing them, children in poverty are continuing to go without. The system is a mess and needs urgent government attention. If it does not, everybody – mothers, fathers and children – will continue to lose out.'

For more information contact:
Ashley Riley
Press Officer
Tel 020 7812 5216
Mobile 07811 324339
ariley@cpag.org.uk