Committee takes evidence on child maintenance and enforcement

• Video and audio evidence session: Child maintenance and enforcement
• Work and Pensions Committee

The witnesses are:

• Janet Paraskeva, Chair, Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission
• Stephen Geraghty, Child Maintenance Commissioner

The Commission - a public body set up in 2008 - has three core functions:

• to promote the financial responsibility that parents have for their children
• to provide information and support on the different child maintenance options available
• to provide an efficient statutory maintenance service, with effective enforcement

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