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Let parents do the job of the CSA? Are you crazy?
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he Department for Work and Pensions will shortly be launching a new £14m In-
novation Fund across Great Britain. It will support separated families and help them to collaborate in the best interests of their children.
The two key objectives of this new Innovation Fund are to: Increase the number of children benefiting from child maintenance arrangements by reducing conflict and improving collaboration between separated and separating parents. This will be achieved by developing effective interventions that help par- ents work together to make their own arrangements and avoid using the Courts or the Child Support Agency. Test a wide range of interventions
to understand what is effective in encouraging collaboration and reduc- ing conflict amongst separating and separated parents. In plain English, what I see hap- pening here is partly the Govern- ment needing to make the CSA unnecessary. and also something else - something quite amazing - an ambition for our population to com-
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municate and collaborate when it comes to caring for children, even when they feel anger, pain and even hatred towards each other. The kind of people who claim that
“mediation doesn’t really work’ will see this as unrealistic and impossible, and merely a cover for funding cuts. People like me, however, don’t see it that way at all. So often over the last few years
I have seen angry parents manage to move from courtroom battles to coffee shop discussions and resolve previously unresolvable conflicts. The truth is, that when the adver- sarial influences of the legal system, emotional pain, fear of loss and well meaning but disastrous advice from family members and mates down the pub are sidelined, couples often do just work out a solution, simply because they love their kids and they get fed up with being angry with each other and want to move on. But how do we encourage still angry and financially vulnerable parents to ‘collaborate’ instead of seeking financial Rottweillers from the CSA to do theirbidding? Work and Pensions Minister Maria
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