Csa to Get Tough with Parents ; Csa Enforcement Shake-Up the Controversial Child Support Agency Is Still Cracking Down On Liverpool's 6,800 Absent Parents. Daily Post Reporter Caroline Innes Was Given Exclusive Access to the Birkenhead Csa Enforcement Team As It Tries to Reclaim Pounds 2im Owed to Children in the Region

Daily Post › January 02, 2008

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THE CSA's attitude to parents who refuse to acknowledge their financial responsibility to their children has changed.

Equipped with new powers, the agency has shaken off its "softly softly" approach and will now use all powers at its disposal to force parents to settle the debt they owe to their child.

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Csa to Get Tough with Parents ; Csa Enforcement Shake-Up the Controversial Child Support Agency Is Still Cracking Down On Liverpool's 6,800 Absent Parents. Daily Post Reporter Caroline Innes Was Given Exclusive Access to the Birkenhead Csa Enforcement Team As It Tries to Reclaim Pounds 2im Owed to Children in the Region

By the time cases reach its Birkenhead office, parents may have been attempting to evade the CSA for years, and officers will make use of information held by Revenue and Customs, credit reference agencies and private tracing agencies to enforce payments. Parents...

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