Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary Statistics: November 2004
Child Support Agency
The Child Support Agency (CSA) was launched on 5 April 1993 as an executive agency of the then Department of Social Security (DSS). 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 maintain their children, whenever they can afford to do so. The Agency is responsible for tracing Non-resident Parents, calculating how much they should pay and, if required, collecting and enforcing payments.
This publication was first produced in November 1995. Earlier extracts are taken from the CSCS each quarter starting in October 1993. Some results from the earlier and subsequent extracts have been published in the 1994–2000 of Social Security statistics, the 2000-2003 editions of Work and Pension statistics and in replies to Parliamentary Questions.
Until February 1995 the results were derived from a 1 per cent sample of records. In May 1995 a redesigned 5 per cent scan using National Insurance numbers to capture one in twenty of the ‘live’ cases on the CSCS replaced this sample. The key data on CSCS relating to the selected cases is transferred automatically from the Agency to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Information Centre (IC) Information and Analysis Directorate (IAD) each quarter. The change in method has resulted in reduced processing time and improved quality of results.
All data within the tables is grossed to the total ‘live’ CSA caseload for Great Britain. Since most of the tables report CSA caseload some Parents/Persons With Care (those associated with more than one Non-resident Parent) will appear more than once (See Table 2.6).
The data in this publication is, as with any grossed sample results, subject to the sampling error explained in Appendix A. Table 2.3 includes analysis based on Government Office Regions. These regions are illustrated in Appendix B.
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From 3 March 2003, all new Child Support applications have been assessed under a new scheme. These cases are stored on a new computer system. In addition, approximately 200 thousand old scheme cases are also administered on the new computer system.
As previously acknowledged, IT difficulties with the new computer system have impacted on the quality of management information on the new scheme. The Agency is currently revisiting its statistical data. We expect to include new scheme figures in our next publication.
The cases still held on the Child Support Computer System (CSCS) are analysed in sections 2-6.
Section 1: Caseload and general details - new scheme
| CSA 1.1 | Number of new scheme applications since March 2003 |
| CSA 1.2 | Number of Maintenance Calculations since March 2003 |
| CSA 1.3 | Number of cases closed/withdrawn since March 2003 |
Section 2: Caseload and general details - CSCS cases only
| CSA 2.1 | Number of 'Live' and Assessed cases, November 2000 - November 2004 |
| CSA 2.2 | Referral source of Fully Assessed cases, November 2002 - November 2004: Numbers |
| CSA 2.3 | Referral source of Fully Assessed cases, November 2002 - November 2004: percentages |
Section 3: Non-resident Parent (NRP) and Parent/Person with Care (PWC) personal details - CSCS cases only
| CSA 3.1 | Gender of Non-resident Parent and Parent/Person with Care |
| CSA 3.2 | Age of Non-resident Parent by age of Parent/Person with Care |
| CSA 3.3 | Region of residence of Non-resident Parent by region of residence of Parent/Person with Care |
| CSA 3.4 | Living distance between Non-resident Parent and Parent/Person with Care |
| CSA 3.5 | Repartnering of Non-resident Parent and Parent/Person with Care |
| CSA 3.6 | Number of Non-resident Parents associated with a Parent/Person with Care |
| CSA 3.7 | Accommodation type of Non-resident Parents |
Section 4: Non-resident Parent (NRP) and Parent/Person with Care (PWC) financial details - CSCS cases only
| CSA 4.1 | Benefit status of Parent/Person with Care and Non-resident Parent |
| CSA 4.2 | Maintenance assessment by benefit status of Parent/Person with Care and Non-resident Parent's employment status |
| CSA 4.3 | Maintenance assessment by Non-resident Parent's employment status/benefit type |
| CSA 4.4 | Non-resident Parent's net income for assessable purposes by employment status |
| CSA 4.5 | Maintenance assessment as a percentage of Non-resident Parent's net income for assessable purposes |
| CSA 4.6 | Maintenance assessment of Non-resident Parents by net income for assessable purposes |
| CSA 4.7 | Maintenance assessment of Non-resident Parents by age |
| CSA 4.8 | Non-resident Parent's method of payment by employment status/benefit type |
| CSA 4.9 | Payment compliance on regular payment accounts by maintenance assessment - Full Assessments |
| CSA 4.10 | Payment compliance on regular payment accounts by maintenance assessment - Interim Assessments |
| CSA 4.11 | Payment compliance on regular payment accounts by maintenance assessment as a percentage of Non-resident Parent's net income for assessable purposes |
| CSA 4.12 | Payment compliance on regular payment accounts by benefit status of Parent/Person with Care |
Section 5: Time series of Non-resident Parent (NRP) and Parent/Person with Care (PWC) financial details - CSCS cases only
| CSA 5.1 | Number and average value of maintenance assessments, November 2000 - November 2004 |
| CSA 5.2 | Benefit status of Parent/Person with Care, November 2000 - November 2004 |
| CSA 5.3 | Number of 'Live' and Fully Assessed cases, November 2000 - November 2004, by Non-resident Parent's employment/benefit status |
| CSA 5.4 | Average Maintenance Assessment, November 2000 - November 2004 by Non-Resident Parent's employment/benefit status |
| CSA 5.5 | Compliance levels for 'Live' and Fully Assessed cases, November 2000 - November 2004 - Numbers |
| CSA 5.6 | Compliance levels for 'Live' and Fully Assessed cases, November 2000 - November 2004 - percentages |
Section 6: Time series of the numbers of qualifying children in 'Live' and Fully Assessed cases - CSCS cases only
| CSA 6.1 | Number of qualifying children in the maintenance assessment by IMA and FMA |
| CSA 6.2 | Benefit status of Parent/Person with Care by the number of qualifying children in the assessment |
| CSA 6.3 | Benefit status of Non-resident Parent by the number of qualifying children in the assessment |
| CSA 6.4 | Compliance levels for 'Live' and Fully Assessed cases, by number of qualifying children in the assessment |
| CSA 6.5 | Number of qualifying children in 'Live' and Fully Assessed cases by region and average maintenance |
