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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• If you owe child maintenance

  Find out what the CMS can do if you don't pay child maintenance and how they can recover payments

• Paying child maintenance through the CMS

  Find out when you have to pay child maintenance, how much you'll have to pay and how to pay

• Complain about a local council's involvement with your family

  Find out how to complain about your local council if they've been involved with your family