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  1. Child Maintenance

    Report Value for money

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    This report looks at whether the government is achieving value for money in its management of child maintenance.

  2. Department for Work and Pensions 2022-23

    Overview Departmental overview

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    This guide summarises information and insights gained from our examinations of DWP and related bodies and DWP’s annual report and accounts.

  3. Child Maintenance Client Funds Accounts 2016-17

    Report Financial audit

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    The C&AG has qualified his audit opinions on the Client Funds Accounts prepared by the Department for Work and Pensions for the 1993 and 2003 Child Maintenance Schemes on the grounds of material levels of irregular receipts and payments and misstated arrears balances. However he has given a clean audit opinion on the 2012 Child Maintenance Scheme Account after improvements in the accuracy of assessing child maintenance claims.

    14 December 2017

  4. Client Funds Account – Statutory Child Maintenance Schemes 2014-15

    Report Financial audit

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    The C&AG has qualified the DWP’s Client Funds Account on the grounds of material errors in the calculations of child maintenance assessments. He has also given an adverse opinion on the truth and fairness of the outstanding maintenance arrears.

  5. Client Funds Account – Statutory Child Maintenance Schemes 2013-14

    Report Financial audit

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    The C&AG has qualified the DWP’s Client Funds Account on the grounds of material errors in the calculations of child maintenance assessments. He has also given an adverse opinion on the truth and fairness of the outstanding maintenance arrears.

  6. Child maintenance 2012 scheme: Early Progress

    Report Value for money

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    The DWP has simplified the way it administers child maintenance and is approaching expected levels of performance. But overall objectives might be at risk if the number of people using family-based arrangements does not increase.

  7. Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission Client Funds Account 2011-12

    Report Financial audit

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    The Comptroller and Auditor General has qualified his opinion on the regularity of receipts and payments because of the level of error in maintenance assessments. He has also given an adverse opinion on the truth and fairness of the outstanding maintenance arrears.

  8. Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: cost reduction

    Report Value for money

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    Plans by CMEC to reduce its spending are based on uncertain estimates. There is a risk that additional cuts might be needed late on in the Spending Review which could have an adverse effect on services.

  9. Child Maintenance

    Press release

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    This report looks at whether the government is achieving value for money in its management of child maintenance.

  10. Confirmed impacts: Learning from the experience of welfare reform

    Report

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    This impacts case study shows how DWP has responded to our reviews of several welfare reform programmes, including by improving financial controls, contract management, and the way it manages its portfolio of change programmes.

    It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.