MPs have called for the Child Maintenance Service to be overhauled after a Daily Mail investigation alleged that serious administrative errors and handling failures had caused severe distress to some fathers, including cases linked to suicide. The issue matters because the service is responsible for helping separated parents arrange financial support for children, and failures can have major consequences for families’ finances and wellbeing.

The article says the calls followed a “damning” exposé into the agency’s blunders, but the supplied text does not include further evidence, individual cases, figures or the Government’s response. The reported focus is on whether the service’s systems, decision-making and safeguards are adequate for people facing disputes over child-maintenance payments.