Official Statistics
Child Maintenance Service statistics: Quality Assurance of Administrative Data report
Child Maintenance Service data sources used by the Department for Work and Pensions, with quality assessments meeting national data assurance standards.
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This report contains information on the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) administrative data sources used by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), as well as quality assessments on each of them.
The UK Statistics Authority have published a regulatory standard including a Quality Assurance of Administrative Data (QAAD) toolkit. The standard was developed in response to concerns about the quality of administrative data and in recognition of the increasing role that such data is playing in the production of official statistics.
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Published 7 August 2026