Re: Something new?

He's such a tosser!

'root-and-branch reform. I will publish it before Christmas.'
Well I guess we'r all in for some big laughs there!





"Martin Davies" <mart2306@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:DEQZe.692$424.11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I want to ask - has he started dealing with the agency?
> Martin <><
> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/26092005/344/csa-complete-shambles-blunkett.html
>
> The Child Support Agency is a "complete shambles", Work and Pensions
> Secretary David Blunkett conceded.
> Mr Blunkett announced plans for a new mediation process to try to agree
> payments by absent parents before they become involved with the Agency.
>
> Since its creation in the 1990s to enforce the payment of support for
> children of single parents, the CSA has been at the centre of furious
> controversy.
>
> Hopes that a new computer system would ease problems were dashed when the
> process of transferring cases from the old software led to massive
backlogs.
>
> Mr Blunkett said that a "root-and-branch" reform of the system would be
> announced before the end of this year.
>
> And he said that one of his most urgent tasks was to bolster morale among
> the 10,000 staff, who he said should feel that they were doing "a
fantastic
> job getting desperate people the money they desperately need".
>
> Speaking from Brighton, where he will give a keynote speech to Labour's
> conference, Mr Blunkett told GMTV: "None of us can be in any doubt that
the
> CSA, over many years, has not delivered. It has been a complete shambles
and
> I am absolutely determined that we are going to do something about it.
>
> "There is going to be a root-and-branch reform. I will publish it before
> Christmas.
>
> "We will set in place a complete revision in the way in which the
structures
> work.
>
> "I am going to announce that, as well as that, I want to set up a gateway
> before people get into the CSA. We want to actually look at how we can
> conciliate or mediate."
>
>


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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Further reports
    ... > Child agency pays out £10m over blunders ... > Another parent who was trying to recover maintenance payments received ... > Tony Blair admitted last November the CSA was not properly suited to carry ... > severe distress to parents. ...
    (uk.gov.agency.csa)
  • Re: Leaked report?
    ... be the compromise between keeping CSA and getting IR involved. ... > TONY BLAIR will be told to scrap the Child Support Agency this week - by ... > work to be shared between other Government departments. ... > maintenance for their children. ...
    (uk.gov.agency.csa)
  • Re: Debt and Appeal
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    (uk.gov.agency.csa)
  • Re: Debt and Appeal
    ... Gestapo had just declared war and start battening down the hatches ... you should pay? ... but my understanding is that all the CSA systems ... interface with benefits agency systems and someone should also be ...
    (uk.gov.agency.csa)
  • Re: Debt and Appeal
    ... be happy for them to call your home and announce they are from Child Support ... DWP and CSA are the same thing, so how could they adjust any assessment?? ... benefits agency, but i do know a lot of NRPs that have had BA write a ...
    (uk.gov.agency.csa)