The Equal Parenting Alliance supports the Conservative’s tentative proposals to give £20 tax breaks to married couples. We agree that marriage is the best foundation for raising children in our society.

The Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill – setting out the Government’s plans for replacing the CSA – will have its second reading in the House of Commons today. We predict that C-MEC will fail as surely as the CSA failed, and for most of the same reasons.

It is generally agreed that the CSA was a failure.
We are concerned the reasons for the failure will not be understood by the government which – without acknowledging the real reasons – is destined to repeat the same mistakes again.