Axe falls on Child Support Agency jobs
A number of Child support Agency jobs are to be axed following an announcement to close the CSA office in Shrewsbury. Closing down the government office, based at New Mayfield House, Oxon Business Park, will spell the end for 42 jobs.
It is not the first jobs blow that the offices have seen in 2010. In January, an announcement was made by HM Revenue & Customs that it was shutting down its operations in the building. Jennie Kendall, speaking on behalf of HMRC, said:
“The decision to vacate New Mayfield House was announced in July 2008 as part of a UK-wide estates review, which included extensive consultation.
“Reductions in staff across HMRC have so far been achieved without compulsory redundancies and that this remains HMRC’s aim.”
The departure of HMRC meant that the CSA would have been the sole occupier of the building, which was not seen as being cost effective. Speaking about the planned closure, a spokesperson for the CSA said:
“The Shrewsbury office processes new CSA cases, which have sharply reduced since 2008 with the removal of compulsion on single parents on income-related benefits to use the agency.
“There will therefore be no discernible effect on the public, though the agency deeply regrets the impact on its loyal staff.
“The 42 CSA employees on site have been informed and formal consultation on voluntary redundancies has begun.”
The cuts come as the new coalition government looks to slash spending on public services and state benefits, the CSA being foremost in its thinking.
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good! now bloody well bring that axe down on the whole of the csa/cmec!
Agree with rach. Get rid of the bloody lot of them and give people their Human Rights and Civil Liberties back. I have never known such a communistic, idiotic way of treating decent people!
Shut the bloody thing down now!
An after thought! They don’t have ONE ounce of sympathy for their victims! Why should we have any sympathy when they lose their jobs?
What comes arouind, goes around! Payback time!
Should close the whole lot down as for the people who work there hope they loose their houses karma is here
fuckin here here !
Yea close the lot they just think they are clever I was going to drive to the office and smack one of there staff in the mouth
well thanks a bunch lads…. are you going to chase up my daughters child suport for her then? it only took 9 yrs to get her dad to cough up £30 pw . we actually get to eat every day now.
will not make a difference to the service they provide, because they simply dont provide any service.
Foxy; exactly you said it 9 years. and you think they do a good service! wot? we actually get to eat every day now. Realy? as if !!
cull the bloody lot…
kick'em all out their jobs including the MP's coz their all shite
The entire operation is based on fraud and theft. They steal from fathers and children and just keep the money. It never reaches the mothers nor the children. Close the whole thing down and refund all money that has not been passed on to the children. And lets put this whole bunch of child abusers and killers out of work! How many more fathers and children are to be persecuted b4 it is finally closed down?
Foxy: u ask if we r 2 persue for your daughters case, unfortunately, its your responsibility as our responsibility to protect the welfare of our own children respectively. It is the children that suffer because of the CSA, children lose their NRPs to suicide because of CSA, children lose attendance at NRP's home because the CSA rob the NRP of their home, children lose out of days out with their NRP because the CSA take away the ability of the NRP making provisions due to theft by deductions of earnings/income by the CSA, everything the CSA does ultimately is taking away provisions for the child, It is not the PWC or NRP that actually sufferin the long run of it all because of the CSA, it is our children who lose out and suffer in the end… ALL thanx to the CSA….FACT!!! The CSA cause the failure to provide for the child by cause and effect… of cause the NRP and PWC respectively suffer because of the CSA, but the final output caused by actions of CSA destroy our childrens welfare, the welfare that NRP's and PWC's are the first parts the CSA aim at in order to destroy our childrens welfare without any regards to how it affects our children, so foxy, you take care of your issues with the CSA instead of blaming/accusing all the NRP's who have issues with CSA as respectively do the PWC's who are finding their children suffering at the incompetence and greed of the CSA….If you have a job, then stop whinging, you have no need to start screaming about your NRP not providing, 1st and formost… look after your child, if working you'll be recieving WFTC's and child benefits, you'll be able to provide better for your child and yourself better than most PWC's who are on benefits!!!Your child is your own resposibility not ours…!
Foxy, as for eating every day on £30…. are you sure its eating or yourself getting nights out on weekends like many PWC's do at the expense of the NRP who is actually providing, in fact providing for the child but the PWC prefers 2 use it as spending money on clothes for herself or nights out for herself while NRP has to find all available overtime just to provide you with an additional income… the CSA was built to pursue Non compliant NRP's but only persists in pursuit of compliant NRP's and use every method to obtain maximum financial gain from the NRP at the cost of the childs welfare!!!! I speak from experience, experience gains knowledge, experiences are financial suffering providing additional income to my PWC and her partner, while I have to find ways of feeding, clothing and entertaining my child during shared care with the miniscule amounts of pennies I'm left with after being robbed and broken by your precious CSA… Oddly though! we eat every day on holidays and weekends while my child is with me without any financial help from PWC…. so dont be bleating if you are unable to budget for the sake of your child, learn some financial control, cut out on buying clothes for yourself from George, Tesco and primark and buy clothes for your child instead, when you've provided for your child, then spend on yourself… first learn to budget instead of relying on additional income from your NRP. I hope you spend every penny you get from your NRP on your child rather than yourself like my PWC has a habit on spending on her own entertainments and providing charity shop clothes were as I prefer my child has brand new clothes and fed well out of my miniscule finances after being financially fleeced by your precious CSA….
In fact, I have managed to force CSA into a position where they are unable to obtain monies from me, even though I still have arrears to pay… I aint payin n wont pay until my final objective is complete, meanwhile my child benefits financially,while he is in my shared care arrangements better than if I was paying CSA… FACT!!!
In an ideal world, we'd be a mile away from CSA buildings on top of a flat roof with the CSA buildings cross haired in the scope mounted on an AI L96 50 cal plus Barret M107 50 cal, of course my son and myself would argue who uses which butwe'd be very happy taking headshots at the CSA employees, that includes my sons feelings and aggressions to CSA, my PWC accuses me of spoiling my child, I dont spoil him, I PROVIDE!!!!!!
Foxy, If I can budget on benefits while also maintaining a car, how is it youre unable to provide just as efficiently on your own income for your child just as respectively?
Only the greedy PWC's use CSA to point score against NRP, This is way too obvious !!!! stop point scoring and get on with it… stop your bleatings and finance your child's welfare instead of relying on your greed!!!!
Some good comments and some silly ones ;foxy get rid of them I'm up for the shooting the lot. Any had to deal with a Mr Golding? From enforcement team
I believe foxy is a PWC, so who would she b gettin rid of? certainly not her child… she does however have the right to stop her claim with CSA but as you see, apparently, her and her child were not eating every day.. if not why not? budgeting is the key!!! PWC's may rely on CSA out of malice for NRP and with such intention desire the NRP to financially suffer, maybe NRP left PWC due to her spending habits which would affirm her ability in poor budgeting in order to feed herself and her child… unfortunately her bleatings are not controling the monies to provide her child with food. Most PWC's who have no help from CSA either by death to NRP or complete mental breakdown causing NRP to go under care services or imprisonment of NRP, have had to learn to budget to provide for their child, so why is it those PWC's who have high incomes have the right to rely on CSA payments from those who are less financially well off? Greed and malice is usually the PWC's reason rather than consideration for the childs welfare.Why is it the PWC causes the child to see the NRP suffer? how does this support the childs welfare? It would appear PWC's use the CSA for personal gain rather than for the gain towards the childs welfare. CSA is used as a tool to access NRP's finance not to support the childs welfare… however! further definition on the CSA being named as TOOLs is more than relevant..
42 jobs is that it. god dont u feel sorry for the blood suckers. maybe those 42 people will realise whats it like to be left with nothing
About bloody time…now I hope that these people see the sheer hell that all PWC and NRP’s go through everyday. Thanks to them.
I have no sympathy, empathy or any feelings at all that these people have lost their jobs. Maybe they can rehumanise themselves now.
Shut the whole lot down and start again.
Well said Graeme. Have you written to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. I have. The more who complain, the better and we eventually might be heard?
John
I am currently drafting a letter of complaint about this debauched agency to the Prime Minister and the Depeuty Prime Minister.
I am also contemplating sending my service medals that I was awarded when i was in the Armed Forces attached to the letter in order that they can be sold by Nick and Dave and the money hopefully can be used to go towards my debt.
Graeme
I also have commendations, where I have served my Queen and Country. They count for nothing,when you are geting treated like ‘scum’ by pen-pushing deskbound amateurs, whose only allegiance is to their pay and bonuses, by picking on the vulnerable, in order to meet targets.
There is a recent posting about acting outside of the law. Take a look and feel free to post your ideas.
It is for parents to make provsion for their children not the Judiciary, Polticians or office staff!
Csa shouldnt be about any way fucking wankers all for the woman they are…….sod if the child lives with the Dad that don't count with the CSA
I’m wondering what the re-employment potential for ex-CSA bods is? Imagine your sitting in your works canteen or similar facility, when the new-bod announces they used to work for the CSA. That should be great for bonding and teambuilding…
I was laid off in Nov 2009, haven’t been able to find gainful employment since – something to do with this calamitous recession, I believe – just had the letter threatening me with court action for not clearing my arrears ‘within two years’ – arrears I shouldn;t have if I had been assessed correctly in the first place then re-assessed correctly in a timely manner.
I sincerely hope none of these ‘people’ are able to find employment ever again and they can experience what it is to suffer hardship and poverty the way they have made others suffer.
They aren't necessarily all for the woman, when you consider how many mothers still aren't receiving any maintenance from their self-employed ex partners!
Hallelujah! Don’t stop there though, the entire CSA needs abolishing. I fullheartedly agree with all previous comments. How such an unjust agency forcing decent people into debt and despair has been allowed to continue this long is unbelievable. I hope a few years on the dole queue will humanise ex CSA staff. While we’re on the subject, how about the government finally recognising the shocking legal inequalities towards fathers. The government has truly let down decent law abiding fathers. As a matter of priority these outdated matrimonial/maintenance laws need rewritten.
i am soooooooooooooo glad ther shutting the place down carnt wau=it for the rest to go