Which public body administers the child support system?  The Child Support Agency (CSA), surely?  Yes and no.  The CSA’s functions have been managed for some time now by the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC), although the CSA system is still basically the same as previously.  The Government has now invited comment on a new proposal to abolish CMEC and to bring the child support system under the wing of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).  If the proposal goes ahead, the child support system will be under the direct control of central government rather than run by a free-standing agency as it has been since the system began in 1993.

So we may go from CSA to CMEC to DWP.  Of course if it wanted, the government could return the child support system to the courts, as it was before the CSA came into existence.  Could that happen?  Unlikely.