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Child maintenance arrangements made after speaking to CM Options: information and methodology

Information on the quarterly surveys and the annual longitudinal survey of child maintenance outcomes for parents that have spoken to Child Maintenance (CM) Options.

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»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp Child maintenance arrangements made after speaking to CM Options statistics allow people to see:

  • the types of arrangements parents are trying after speaking to the
  • the number of children who may benefit from these arrangements

Updates to this page

Published 3 August 2016
Last updated 6 November 2019 show all updates
  1. Added a note about future releases of these statistics.

  2. Published a revised version of the document (still dated July 2018). Updated to reflect a change of terminology - the publication no longer uses ‘children covered� and instead uses ‘children on arrangements�. This means the number of children who a paying parent has a child maintenance arrangement for. Also published an HTML version of the same document.

  3. Published a revised background and methodology document, updated to support the July 2018 release of CM Options statistics (data to March 2018). »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp revised version is dated July 2018.

  4. Published a revised background and methodology document, updated to support the April 2018 release of child maintenance arrangements made after speaking to CM Options statistics (data to December 2017). »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp revised version is dated April 2018.

  5. Published a revised background and methodology document, updated to support the January 2018 release of child maintenance arrangements made after speaking to CM Options statistics (data to Sept 2017). »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp revised version is dated January 2018.

  6. Published a revised background and methodology document, updated to support the October release of effective family-based child maintenance arrangements statistics (data to June 2017).

  7. Changed the description of the methodology for calculating the stock of effective family-based arrangements and the number of children benefiting from these.

  8. Added revised effective family-based arrangement background and methodology document with various changes throughout.

  9. Revised effective family-based arrangement background and methodology document with new table on page 4.

  10. First published.

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