CPAG: Hutton right to make enforcement top priority of CSA review
23.11.05

Responding to John Hutton’s comments about the Child Support Agency (CSA) at the Work & Pensions select committee this morning, Kate Green, Chief Executive of the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), said:

“John Hutton is right to make enforcement a top priority of the CSA review. Hundreds of thousands of families continue to go without because they are not getting the maintenance money they are entitled to.

“CPAG are also pleased that Mr Hutton recognised the urgent need, as part of his review, to deal with the huge backlog of cases in the system.

“Until the CSA – or whatever it is replaced with – begins to deliver for parents and their children, the Government’s targets to end child poverty will be seriously undermined.”

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