The Nuffield Foundation has published the full report from a study examining public views of child support and how it should be calculated, conducted by a team including Joanna Miles.
The study assessed whether the British public believes the government should require non-resident parents to pay child maintenance to support their children, and provides the first detailed examination of how much maintenance the public believes it should require in different family circumstances. Using the British Social Attitudes 2012 survey, the study asked respondents how much child maintenance the government should require non-resident parents to pay in different scenarios. The scenarios were designed to reveal whether and how people take into account both parents' incomes, as well as their marital status, relationship duration, and their formation of new families.
In her foreword to the report, Teresa Williams, Director of Social Research and Policy at the Nuffield Foundation thanked the research team for a "detailed, thoughtful, and timely piece of work which we believe is sound evidence that cannot be ignored in the future development of child maintenance policy".
The report, by Caroline Bryson, Ira Ellman, Steve McKay and Joanna Miles, is available via the Nuffield Foundation website.