Child Maintenance: A survey for Barking and Dagenham residents

About this survey

This survey aims to understand residents’ experiences with the Child Maintenance Service, with private child maintenance arrangements, and various reasons why some parents may not have any arrangement in place. We also want to understand the challenges and barriers that residents face when planning for child maintenance.
Your insights will help us identify where support could be improved so we can design better services for families.

About this survey

This survey aims to understand residents’ experiences with the Child Maintenance Service, with private child maintenance arrangements, and various reasons why some parents may not have any arrangement in place. We also want to understand the challenges and barriers that residents face when planning for child maintenance.
Your insights will help us identify where support could be improved so we can design better services for families.

  • What is Child Maintenance?

    Child maintenance is financial support that helps with a child’s everyday living costs when parents live separately. It can be arranged privately between parents or managed through the Child Maintenance Service (CMS).
    You can read more about child maintenance on GOV.UK here:
    👉 www.gov.uk/child-maintenance

    About this survey

    This survey aims to understand residents’ experiences with the Child Maintenance Service, with private child maintenance arrangements, and various reasons why some parents may not have any arrangement in place. We also want to understand the challenges and barriers that residents face when planning for child maintenance.
     Your insights will help us identify where support could be improved so we can design better services for families.

    As a thank you for completing this survey, you will have the opportunity to enter a prize draw to win a £20 Amazon voucherIf you’d like to enter the prize draw, you will be asked for your nameemail ID and phone number in this form so that we can contact you if you are one of the winners. Five winners will be selected at random after the survey closes and contacted directly. 

    Your contact details will be used only for the purpose of administering the prize draw and will not be linked to your survey responses. Your answers will remain confidential.

    Your privacy matters to us

    All answers you provide will be treated as confidential and stored securely. You can ask for your responses to be removed at any time.
    To learn more about your data rights under UK law, you can read about the UK GDPR and data protection here:
    👉 www.gov.uk/data-protection

    Need to talk to someone?

    If you’d like to speak to someone about child maintenance or need support, you can visit your local Family Hub or Community Hub, and we’ll be happy to help.

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