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Ministers are planning to publish the names of absent parents who refuse to pay maintenance for their children. Ministers are planning to publish on the internet the names of absent parents who refuse to pay maintenance for their children.
Under the plans, people convicted of failing to support their children could have their details put on a website. The move, aimed at shaming parents into paying up what they owe, has already been tried in the US.
The move is expected to be among a series of measures in a white paper as details of the CSA's replacement is announced later this week. It is due to be among measures in a White Paper later this week.
Its new enforcement powers will be aimed at the 30% of absent parents the agency been unable to track down. The paper will outline reforms to the maintenance system, including details of the body which is to replace the troubled Child Support Agency.
The idea of putting the names of parents who fail to support their children on a website has already been tried in the US. New enforcement powers will be aimed at the 30% of absent parents the agency been unable to track down.
BBC political correspondent Garry O'Donoghue said in the UK the website could be up and running within months as legislation is not needed to get it online. The website could be up and running within months as legislation is not needed to get it online.
Our correspondent said ministers believed "naming and shaming" non-payers would be a low-cost way of making a high impact.
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Ministers are set to announce proposals this week which are expected to include removing passports from absent parents who do not pay up and imposing curfews and electronic tagging. Other proposals are expected to include removing passports from absent parents who do not pay up, and imposing curfews and electronic tagging.
It comes as the CSA, which has been dogged by problems and is owed £3.5bn, is to be scrapped. The CSA, which has been dogged by problems and is owed £3.5bn, is to be scrapped and replaced with a smaller body.
The Child Support Bill, unveiled in the Queen's Speech, aims to replace it with a smaller body and a simpler way of collecting child maintenance. On Saturday it emerged that the agency 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.
However, some campaigners fear that more than £1bn owed to parents will be written off when the agency is replaced.However, some campaigners fear that more than £1bn owed to parents will be written off when the agency is replaced.