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The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Division

The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Division’s overall purpose is to promote and secure effective child maintenance arrangements. To deliver this objective the Division has three core functions.

Customer Information

Child maintenance can make a significant difference to a child’s wellbeing and the quality of family relationships. A parent who does not live with their child still has a financial responsibility for the child.

Child Maintenance Campaigns

The Child Maintenance Choices media campaign, launched 17th January 2011, promotes a free impartial helpline service to talk parents, friends, families or anyone with an interest through the choices about child maintenance.  

Child Maintenance Information for Groups