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A principle of child maintenance is to increase levels of cooperation between separated parents and encourage parents to meet their responsibilities to provide their children with financial support.<\/p>
Where a family-based child maintenance arrangement is not suitable the Child Maintenance Service offers a statutory scheme for those parents who need it.<\/p>
When a parent joins the statutory scheme Child Maintenance Service will do everything within its powers to ensure parents comply and meet their obligations to children.<\/p>
In the 12 months up to March 2024 there were 131,300 claims to the child maintenance statutory scheme (rounded to the nearest 100) and the child maintenance service arranged £1.4 billion child maintenance through the statutory scheme, an increase from £1.2 billion during the previous 12 months.<\/p>
CMS are wholly committed to delivering the best possible service to all customers within our growing caseload. When a Parent or their representative disagrees with a decision about a child maintenance calculation, they have the right to appeal. Before they do this, they must first ask for a Mandatory Reconsideration.<\/p>
If the Child Maintenance Service decides not to change its decision the parent can follow the formal appeal process, handled by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) where an independent tribunal will look at the Child Maintenance Service\u2019s decision.<\/p>
The Department publishes quarterly statistics for the Child Maintenance Service<\/a> (CMS) and the latest statistics are available up to March 2024<\/a>.<\/p> Table 3 from the latest National tables<\/a> contains the number of arrangements joining the Child Maintenance Service each quarter from January 2015 to March 2024. Table 11 contains information on the number of appeals made by parents to His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service to review a decision made by the Child Maintenance Service each quarter from April 2015 to March 2024.<\/p> <\/p> Excerpts for the last five years for both tables are shown below.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Table 3: Intake, Great Britain, April 2019 to March 2024<\/strong><\/p> <\/p>