Question follow-through · 17935

Child Maintenance Service: Pilot Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will publish an evaluation of the pilot scheme on the use of single-named caseworkers by the Child Maintenance Service.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Dec 2024
Answer
12 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will publish an evaluation of the pilot scheme on the use of single-named caseworkers by the Child Maintenance Service.

  2. 6 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The Child Maintenance Service takes the support of survivors of domestic abuse very seriously. In response to recommendation 4 of Dr Callan’s independent review, the Single Caseworker Team pilot was set up on 23rd January 2024 to deal with complex domesti...

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