Guidance and regulation

Use this guide to help you think about the items you would like to include in your child maintenance arrangement.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 12 August 2019

• Working out the cost of raising your children (You can view online)

  Use this form as a guide to help you think about the items you would like…

Use this guide to help you write down your child maintenance arrangement with your child's other parent.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 12 August 2019

• Your child maintenance arrangement (You can view online)

  Most children benefit from having both parents or guardians involved in…

Use this guide to help you plan a conversation about child maintenance with your child's other parent.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 12 August 2019

• Planning your child maintenance conversation (You can view online)

  Why having this conversation might be a good idea Use this guide to help…

This document provides information on the uses and users of the Child Maintenance Service statistics.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 26 March 2024

This document provides background information about the separated families statistics and information on how they are compiled.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 21 March 2024

Guidance on the different areas of the government's child maintenance compliance and arrears strategy 2018.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 14 December 2018