Returning forcibly deported children to Ukraine
A Westminster Hall debate on returning forcibly deported children to Ukraine is scheduled for Wednesday 21 May 2025, from 2.30pm to 4.00pm. The debate will be led by Johanna Baxter MP.

This briefing was last updated in August 2018.
Child maintenance: new steps to improve compliance and to allow arrears to be written off (UK excluding NI) (198 KB , PDF)
Up-to-date information can now been found in the Library Briefings CBP 7774: Child Maintenance: Fees, enforcement and arrears and Child maintenance: how it is calculated under the 2012 CMS scheme
This House of Commons Library briefing paper considers new measures confirmed in July 2018 to improve compliance and allow arrears to be written off for the statutory child maintenance scheme.
Shortly before the “Child Maintenance Arrears and Compliance Strategy 2012 to 2017” expired, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) launched a consultation on a new strategy. In July 2018, the Government published its response to the consultation which took forward the proposals it had set out, but with some modifications.
The key measures announced in the July 2018 Government response are:
The Government has said that these changes, along with the power to write off sequestrated debt in Scotland and previously announced proposals to allow deductions from joint bank accounts, will be introduced during autumn 2018. Changes relating to welfare benefits which will be implemented at an (unspecified) later date.
These measures will complement the existing spectrum of collection and enforcement powers, more details of which can be found in a separate Library paper.
This note applies to Great Britain only (i.e. United Kingdom excluding Northern Ireland).
Child maintenance: new steps to improve compliance and to allow arrears to be written off (UK excluding NI) (198 KB , PDF)
A Westminster Hall debate on returning forcibly deported children to Ukraine is scheduled for Wednesday 21 May 2025, from 2.30pm to 4.00pm. The debate will be led by Johanna Baxter MP.
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An overview of youth services; the statutory duties and policy in different parts of the UK as well as a summary of some of research into the impacts of youth work.