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• Getting child maintenance

  Information about getting child maintenance. Get help applying for CMS, challenging what they think you should get and if you're owed money

• Paying child maintenance

  Information about paying child maintenance. Find out more about paying through the CMS, challenging what they say you should pay and if you owe money

• Local council support for children and families

  Local council support for children and families. Find out about getting help from the council, if your child is taken into care by them and how to complain

• If there's a child protection conference for your child

  Explains what a child protection conference is and when a local council can call for one to be held

• Getting help and compensation if you were abused as a child

  What you can do if you were abused as a child including getting support, reporting the abuse to the police, checking records and claiming compensation

• Making a private child maintenance arrangement

  Making a private child maintenance arrangement Agreeing maintenance between you

• Choosing how to arrange child maintenance

  Choosing how to arrange child maintenance Check what child maintenance arrangement is right for you

• Complaining about the Child Maintenance Service

  Find out what you can do if you want to make a complaint about the way the CMS has dealt with you

• Applying to the CMS for child maintenance

  Applying to the CMS for child maintenance. Find out how to get maintenance through the Child Maintenance Service and how you can apply

• If you're owed child maintenance

  Find out what you can do if you're not getting the child maintenance payments you're owed