Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
10:47 am
Lord McKenzie: The information and support service will be an important component. It is important that that is up and running robustly by the time the section 6 compulsion goes. As you would expect, the role of that service is to encourage and help to facilitate voluntary agreements, as well as to help people access the statutory service. That will be in place at an early stage, by the time the section 6 compulsion goes. That resource will be there to help and guide people. The full range of information and support that will be given has not yet been fully worked out, but we would expect a standard maintenance agreement to be on offer, which people can use to put in place voluntary arrangements. That support will be there.