Clause 15
Child Maintenance and Other Payments
11:45 am
Andrew Selous (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; South West Bedfordshire, Conservative)
Then I shall put this contention to the Minister: in years to come, when social services have the sad but important duty of removing children from their parents, they will list in their many and varied reasons, the failure to apply for child maintenance. That failure will be one of the factors in perhaps a long list that will contribute to children being removed from their homes, which may be the proper thing to do.