Child Maintenance Service – Policy, Law and Decision Making Guidance
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In 2016 and 2017 we obtained copies of a set of documents called “Policy, Law and Decision Making Guidance” (PLDMG). If you saw our recent post on Child Maintenance Policies then you will have started to understand the processes that caseworkers go through (or should go through) when dealing with CMS cases.
Here is the full list of documents in the PLDMG:
- 13 Week Linking Rule
- 42 day appeal timescales
- Abbreviations and Glossary
- Action of Furthcoming
- Appeals
- Applications
- Arrears Methods of Collection Overview
- Arrestment (Scotland)
- Arrestment on the Dependence
- Attachment (Scotland)
- Bailiffs
- Boarding school fees (Variation)
- Can the child be a Relevant Other Child – this was in the index but not provided
- Certain Payments (Varition)
- Changes to a Special Expenses Variation
- Charge for Payment
- Charging orders
- Charging
- Child of the family or Child abrod
- Child supported under a family based arrangement
- Contact Costs (Variation)
- Corrections of decisions
- Court Orders
- Court Proceedings and Presentation
- Credit Reference Agency
- Current Income (Employment)
- Current Income Self Employed
- Deduction from Earnings Orders and Requests
- Deduction Orders
- Default maintenance decisions
- Determining child status flowchart
- Direct (non scheme) payments
- Direct Lodgement
- Direct Pay Choice
- Diversion of Income (Variation)
- DMG Debt Steer
- Earned Income Variations
- Effective Date Table 1 – Initial Effective Date
- Effective Date Table 2 – Supersession – Income Related Changes
- Effective Date Table 3 – Supersession – Add Child Role
- Effective Date Table 4 – Supersession- Remove Child Role
- Effective Date Table 5 – Supersession – Other
- Effective Date Table 6 – Close Case
- Effective Date Table 7 – Revisions
- Effective Dates
- Estimating current income
- Evidence and Decision Making
- Exceptional Attachment
- Financial Transition
- Freezing Orders
- Guardianship
- Historic Income
- Income Reviews
- Inhibition
- Initial Effective Date
- Interim Attachments
- Last Known or Last Notified Address
- Legal Enforcement (England and Wales) Ovrview
- Legal Enforcement (Scotand) Overview
- Legislation
- Liability orders (Scotland)
- Liability Orders
- Long Term or Illness Disability of a Relevant Other Child
- Maintenance Calculation Overview
- Managing Client Contact
- Mandatory Reconsideration
- Notifications
- Offsetting Third Party Payments
- Order for interdicting and action for reduction (Scotland)
- Other factors Overview Maintenance calculations
- Overpayments
- Parentage Disputes
- Payment Allocation
- POST-Initial dispute ASSUMED at initial MC – flowchart
- POST-Initial dispute NOT ASSUMED at initial – flowchart
- PRE-Initial MC Parentage flowchart
- Prior Debts Variation
- Rates and Rules
- Reactive Transition
- Recovery from Deceased Estates
- Relevant Other Child Decision Making Guidance
- Revisiting decisions flowchart
- Revisions
- Role Reversal and Split Care Offsetting
- Sanctions (Scotland)
- Sanctions
- Service Types and Methods of Payment
- Setting Aside Disposition Order
- Shared Care
- Supersessions
- Suspending Debt
- Third Party Debt Orders
- Umbrella Company
- Unearned Income Variation
- Universal Credit
- Unlikely To Pay
- Variation Orders
- Variations Overview
- Verification of Death
- Voluntary Payments
- Write Off and Case Closure Write Off
In a Family Law system designed for combative parents there is no real allowance for the views of children and any understanding of how Family Law ultimately impacts on children most of all.
We speak for the children in Family Law so that, finally, the children have a voice.