HOW OUR GROUP CAME TO BE

Whilst being members of another discussion forum, two of us were horrified at the situation parents, both resident and non resident, and their families, find themselves in  when dealing with the Child Support Agency, which is part of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).

Ironically, we are all to believe that the purpose of the CSA/CMEC is, to ensure the welfare of our children. Sadly in some of cases, this could not be further from the truth.

Agency non performance and actions have a detrimental effect on the very reasons the CSA /CMEC exists ~ our children.

In many cases non resident parents (NRP) acquire hefty arrears, not through being non compliant, but due to Agency delays and errors.

Also, many parents with care who do have genuine non compliant ex's or 'deadbeat dads', due to years of Agency neglect have failed to receive any Child Support.

In April 2008, 'afairercsaforall' was launched as a forum based support group for BOTH parents.

Despite poor 'search engine' rankings, in only 5 months the forum had a 376 strong and growing membership of PWC, NRP and their partners.

Since our launch, not only has membership grown, our dedicated team has also increased and we all give our time freely.

We firmly believe that a fairer Child Support (CS) system is needed for ALL ~ something which CSCS (CS1) and CS2 both failed to achieve. Unfortunately, the new Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC), also seems to be heading down the same route for failure.