Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary Statistics: December 2005
Child Support Agency
The Child Support Agency (CSA) was launched on 5th April 1993, as an executive agency of the then Department of Social Security. The CSA was given the role of implementing the 1991 Child Support Act and subsequent legislation with the purpose of ensuring that parents who live apart, both fulfil their responsibility to maintain their children whenever they can afford to do so. The Agency is responsible for tracing non-resident parents (NRPs), calculating how much they should pay and, if required, collecting and enforcing payments.
Since 3 March 2003, all new cases have been calculated under a new scheme on a new computer system. This new computer system also handles old scheme cases where one of the parents is also part of a new scheme case.
Following a period of quality assurance work involving Departmental statisticians and the Child Support Agency (CSA), DWP are now publishing statistics relating to cases on the new CSA computer system. Although the initial range of statistics is somewhat limited, this represents a welcome step forward for the Agency.
At the time of the last quarterly release, DWP launched a consultation on the future of CSA statistics. The replies from this consultation will be gathered by Departmental Statisticians and a response will be released in Spring 2006.
Contents
| CSA Table 1 | Status of all cases being handled by the Agency |
| CSA Table 2.1 | Intake, clearances and work on hand: All applications received |
| CSA Table 2.2 | Intake, clearances and work on hand: Applications received via Jobcentre Plus |
| CSA Table 2.3 | Intake, clearances and work on hand: Applications received directly from parents with care |
| CSA Table 3 | New-scheme clearances, by month of application, whether cleared, and age at clearance. |
| CSA Table 4 | Age of New-scheme Applications at Clearance, by Month of Clearance |
| CSA Table 5 | Age of uncleared new scheme applications (scheme to date) |
| CSA Table 6 | Status of Assessed/Calculated Cases |
| CSA Table 7 | Case Compliance |
| CSA Table 8.1 | Fully Compliant Cases as a Percentage of all Compliant Cases |
| CSA Table 8.2 | Amount of Maintenance Received, as a Percentage of Maintenance Charged, for Compliant Cases |
| CSA Table 9 | Method of Collection: Usage |
| CSA Table 10 | Method of Collection: Compliance |
| CSA Table 11 | Cash Compliance |
| CSA Table 12 | Arrears collected as a percentage of those accrued |
| CSA Table 13 | Percentage of Parents With Care on Income Support or Jobseeker's Allowance (income based) in Receipt of Maintenance |
| CSA Table 14 | Receipt of Child Maintenance Premium |
| CSA Table 15 | Weekly maintenance liability by scheme |
| CSA Table 16 | Telephony Performance |
| CSA Table 17 | Accuracy of maintenance calculations and assessments. |
