Child Maintenance Service APPG

All-Party Parliamentary Group dedicated to analysing the Child Maintenance Service with a view to making recommendations to improve it. Chair @Jamie4North

[Child Maintenance Service APPG @CMSAPPG]

Did you know...?

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Child Maintenance Service:

🟣 First met in October 2022
🔵Is chaired by @Jamie4North MP
🟠 Vice chairs: @marionfellows @PhilipDaviesUK @StevenBonnarSNP @OfKawczynski @RosieDuffield1
🟢 Secretariat: @Gingerbread & @OPFS.

[One Parent Families Scotland @OPFS]

💔 Life is hard for all parents on low incomes.

It’s even harder for parents <25 who receive less Universal Credit due to their age!

‼️ UK party leaders must commit to scrap this policy ahead of the #GeneralElection.

Write to your MP: https://t.co/qNbkfU9gNI

#AutumnStatement

[Gingerbread @Gingerbread]

Looking forward to @LibDems conference debate on the CMS tomorrow. We contributed to the conference motion and hope to see it become official policy. We want to work with all political parties to #FixTheCMS. Find out how you can get involved here: https://t.co/zFkT6MeQo5

[Child Maintenance Service APPG @CMSAPPG]

🙏 Thank you everyone who attended today's APPG on CMS & Domestic Abuse, especially parents who shared with us their experiences of using the #ChildMaintenanceService

Read the joint briefing paper by the secretariat, @OPFS & @Gingerbread here ⤵️

https://t.co/eSpQGaAl8U

[Deidre Cartwright @Deidre_C]

Thank you @Gingerbread for inviting me to represent @SEAresource at the @CMSAPPG to speak about abusers’ use of child maintenance as a common form of economic abuse & post separation coercive & controlling behaviour. Read our shared policy asks here👇https://t.co/pPFp75hBB4

[Child Maintenance Service APPG @CMSAPPG]

@OPFS @_VictoriaBenson @Gingerbread @Deidre_C @SEAresource @cajardineMP @womensaid @Jamie4North Thank you to everyone who took part in today’s meeting, especially parent survivors of domestic abuse who bravely shared their experiences. Pleased to see over 40 participants today.

We will keep a record of all comments made - these will be included in the APPG recommendations.

[Child Maintenance Service APPG @CMSAPPG]

Today the APPG on #ChildMaintenance will be meeting to discuss how to better support survivors of domestic abuse.

[Child Maintenance Service APPG @CMSAPPG]

🗓 Next week, the APPG Child Maintenance Service is meeting to discuss how the service can better support survivors of domestic abuse.

🙋🏻‍♀️ If you're interested in joining the virtual meeting on Tuesday 12th at 10am, or have a question, please contact us at [email protected]

[Child Maintenance Service APPG @CMSAPPG]

@OPFS @_VictoriaBenson @Gingerbread @Deidre_C @SEAresource @cajardineMP @womensaid @Jamie4North urges people to write to their MP asking for 4% fees to be abolished for resident parents using the CMS and for the £20 enrolment fee to be scrapped:

More on this here: https://t.co/ZA3Yyuuz6Y