Child Maintenance Service: A broken system failing our children

Rejected 9 signatures

What the petition asks

CMS should review case by case not just brandishing every family as the same.
Without any court orders, the recieving parent should not be able to stop all contact. This is enabling the receiving parent to have more in payments. Parent alienation is extremely damaging to children. The list goes on

The Child Maintenance Service: Making it unaffordable to work, while incentivising parental alienation and allowing abuse of the paying parent.

Best interests for the children CMS say?

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• Enabling and encouraging Parent Alienation to maximise child maintenance.
• Not all children paid equally. If you have a child living with you, that child receives a lot less a month.
• Paying parents at higher risk of suicide.
• Paying parent being emotionally and psychologically abused.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

We think this petition is very similar to yours:

Reduce child maintenance, exclude overtime & introduce no contact, no payment: Reduce child maintenance, exclude overtime & introduce no contact, no payment

Timeline

15 May 2026	Petition opened for signatures
15 Jun 2026	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 9

Status Rejected

Rejected 15 Jun 2026

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