Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary Statistics: September 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 in a position to begin formal publication of 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 same time, this release marks the beginning of a twelve week consultation period. During this time, the publication of statistics will continue on the new basis. The consultation document is below. Consultation replies will be gathered by Departmental Statisticians and a response will be released in Spring 2006.
Contents
| CSA Table 1 | Caseload by scheme |
| CSA table 2 | New application intake, clearances and work on hand |
| CSA Table 3 | Cohorts of new scheme applications by month of application and whether or not cleared in certain time bands |
| 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 | Case Compliance Status |
| CSA Table 7 | Collection Service Rolling Last Quarter Case Compliance for 'Live' and Fully Assessed Cases on CSCS and CS2 |
| CSA Table 8 | Of compliant cases (rolling last quarter), % who are fully complaint and amount of maintenance received as % of maintenance charged |
| CSA Table 9 | Live and assessed/ calculated caseload with maintenance liability by Method of Collection |
| CSA Table 10 | Collection Service Rolling Last Quarter Case Compliance (%) by Method of Collection |
| CSA Table 11 | Cash Compliance levels (regular payment accounts and arrears accounts) for 'Live' and Fully Assessed Cases on CSCS and CS2 |
| CSA Table 12 | Arrears target for 'Live' and Fully Assessed Cases on CSCS and CS2 |
| CSA Table 13 | PSA target - Percentage of PWCs on Income Support or Jobseeker's Allowance (income based) with an assessment/calculation who are currently receiving maintenance |
| CSA Table 14 | New Scheme number and amount of Child Maintenance Premiums |
| CSA Table 15 | Weekly Maintenance liability by scheme (percentage of cases) |
