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Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission

The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission is a non-departmental public body with responsibility for the child maintenance system in Great Britain.

The commission’s primary objective is to maximise the number of effective child maintenance arrangements in place for children who live apart from one or both of their parents. These may be arranged collaboratively between parents or through the statutory scheme.

It has three core statutory functions:

  • Promotion of the financial responsibility that parents who live apart have for their children
  • Provision of information and support to those parents to help them make effective maintenance arrangements
  • Provision of an efficient statutory child maintenance service, with effective enforcement

The commission has two delivery bodies: Child Maintenance Options, which provides the information and support service and the Child Support Agency which continues to administer the current statutory schemes.

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