In a report earlier this year, MPs on the Work and Pensions SelectCommittee urged the Government to set out detailed plans for the ChildMaintenance and Enforcement Commission's IT system. But the departmentsaid it would be wrong to do so as the Child Maintenance and EnforcementCommission (C-MEC) would be a non-departmental body and was free tochoose its own IT plans.
Michelle Counley, chair of the National Association for Child SupportAction, accused the Government of washing its hands of the problems. "Ithasn't addressed what it needs to do to get the system working," shesaid. "The C-MEC idea is just the Government putting itself at arms'length from criticism."
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