UK Child Support Agency "to be scrapped"

Very interesting, actually exciting news from my friend Bruce Tichbon. The UK Child Support Agency is to be scrapped.

The Times has learnt that, in future, separating parents will be told to sort out their own financial arrangements with the help of national guidelines on appropriate levels of child maintenance.

Ministers will be accused of letting down some of the most vulnerable families in the country. However, they will argue that, when parents separate, the Government should get involved only as a last resort, not as soon as the break-up happens.

Frank Field, a former welfare reform minister, said that he would welcome any move to keep warring parents away from the agency.

“The power of the State should only be used against people who fail to meet minimum requirements of good parenting.”

No less than you would expect from the deeply considered Frank Field.

Correct me if I'm wrong but this agency has been around for about the same time as the IRD Child Support Agency. Certainly the NZ Child Support Act came out of the early nineties. The most iniquitous piece of legislation.

(Dunne is fiddling with it at the moment but don't hold your breath.)