The challenges facing The Northern Ireland Assembly in meeting its target of ending child poverty.

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"A recent report for OFMDFM (2008) highlighted the levels of fuel poverty faced by lone
parents, revealing that lone parents on average spent 56 per cent of their income on fuel compared with 26 per cent in Britain (Hillyard and Patsios, 2009)."

Fragmented and separated families is leading to wide spread child poverty in N.Ireland, the removal of good loving fathers through Secret Family Dip Loc Courts is attributing to child poverty. The lack of childcare is highlighted in this report and one remedy is to stop socially excluding fathers and the child's extended family from the child. When a father is removed from a child's life, then to is half of that's child's family who could aid and support in childcare.

Social engineering since the implementation of the Children's Order 1995 has created and attributed to child poverty in N.Ireland and must be reversed by allowing children the right to enjoy the freedom and liberty of residence with both its parents.

Alarm over Cafcass's 'child court crisis'

http://news.realfathersforjustice.org/index.php?itemid=327

A senior family judge has warned of an "alarming deterioration" in the protection of vulnerable children in care proceedings.

Cafcass insiders claim its official caseload figures mask the true picture

Judge Graham Cliffe, who is based in York, told BBC File on 4 that support for children from Cafcass (Children and Family Court Advisory Service) was at a crisis level in his region of North Yorkshire.

Child Support Agency Slammed

 In a series of newspapers reports, the Child Support Agency has been slammed for not working anywhere near as it should be. 

Close to £100 million of public money has been driven into this agency in the past five years in England & Wales - Public Finance

BBC -Child maintenance IT system flawed

Financial Times - Child support office suffers from IT woes

Public Service - CSA's IT still a cause for concern