Child support payments up
More than four in five separated parents now pay to support their children through the Child Support Agency, compared to just two out of five three years ago, Work and Pensions Minister Steve Webb will say later.
Child support payments 'now the normal thing to do'
Work and Pensions minister Steve Webb said that Britain had "turned an important corner" in recent years to become a country where looking after your child financially after a relationship has ended has become the norm.
Speaking at the Child Support Agency prepared to stop accepting new applications at the end of this year, as the new Child Maintenance Service is rolled out, he said:
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