Reply #59: UK: Website to 'shame' absent parents [View All]

[rainbow4321]

Revoking passports (or not issuing them) to the deadbeats would prevent a lot of them from fleeing.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6166045.stm

Ministers are planning to publish on the internet the names of absent parents who refuse to pay maintenance for their children.

Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton said he aimed to "come down like a ton of bricks" on absent parents. New enforcement powers to be outlined in a White Paper this week include the removal of passports, curfews and electronic tagging.

Labour MP, Frank Field, former minister for welfare reform, said he supported the plans but measures would need to be in place to ensure the information posted on the internet was accurate.

On Saturday it emerged that the CSA had been increasingly using private companies to collect unpaid money, which had so far enabled it to recover about £320,000 which it would not otherwise have recovered.