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Child Maintenance Service statistics

Official statistics on child maintenance arrangements administered by the Child Maintenance Service.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for the child maintenance system in Great Britain. It funds information and support for separating parents and runs the statutory child maintenance schemes, currently operated through the Child Support Agency (CSA) and the Child Maintenance Service (CMS).

Find future release dates in our statistics release calendar and contact information and more about DWP statistics on the Statistics at DWP page.

Latest release

Background information and methodology

Previous releases

From 28 February 2018 the name of this statistical series changed from ‘2012 statutory child maintenance scheme statistics’ to ‘Child Maintenance Service statistics’.

National statistics on the 1993 and 2003 statutory child maintenance schemes are published in the CSA quarterly summary of statistics.

Publication strategy

The publication below provides details on the strategy for the publication of information about the 2012 scheme.