Here's one way to slash Britain's rate of child poverty: stop dithering and make all fathers pay what's due | Polly Toynbee

The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) fails to collect maintenance payments from non-paying fathers, leaving single mothers and children in poverty. Despite draconian powers, the CMS lacks the administrative capacity to enforce laws. The state should step in to ensure fathers pay child support, as it does with other debts.