Have your say on government e-petitions

Take stronger measures to enforce payment of child maintenance arrears.

Submitted by Surell Clarke on Friday 29th August 2025

Published on Thursday 23rd October 2025

Current status: Closed

Closed: Thursday 23rd April 2026

Signatures: 132

Relevant Departments

Tagged with

Child ~ Child maintenance ~ Ensure ~ measures ~ paying ~ Payment ~ Power ~ Regular ~ The Power

Petition Action

Take stronger measures to enforce payment of child maintenance arrears.

Petition Details

Take a stronger stance on non-paying parents related to Child maintenance and enforce more stringent measures to ensure they not only pay the regular payments due but clear any child maintenance arrears, especially when there's evidence the non paying parents can afford to do so.

Additional Information

Of the Child Maintenance payments arranged through the Collect and Pay service, the total unpaid was £27.8 million. The government have the power to enforce collection but we think they aren't doing this adequately.


You can't sign this petition because it is now closed. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!

Have your say on this petition!

comments powered by Disqus

repetition.me is a Good Stuff website

216.73.216.219 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:50:14 +0100