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Child Maintenance Arrears over £3,761 million

| July 18, 2010

Single parent charity Gingerbread recently published a nationwide league table of child maintenance debt showing a child maintenance ‘debt mountain’ of £3,761 million owed to children by non-resident parents, mostly fathers, across the country. Gingerbread’s Chief Executive Fiona Weir urged the ‘Child Support Agency has to do its job too in collecting debts and enforcing payment’ .

People Died For This!

| July 2, 2010

“MPs in Kenya have voted to boost their own salaries, making them among the world’s best paid politicians.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/10476388.stm.