The 1991 Child Support Act by Leanne McCarthy-Cotter

Author:Leanne McCarthy-Cotter
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319987613
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

The economic objectives that had been embedded into the policy, had in effect, prescribed the policy to failure. This was acknowledged by the DSS , as well as by the Senior Civil Servants that Thatcher had entrusted with creating the system, yet ‘Mrs Thatcher rejected all misgivings and insisted the project proceed’ (Polly Toynbee, Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay, 1999). While the fundamental policy proposal of Newton and Lord Mackay was maintained, the detail inside the Bill was controversial, ill-judged, and contradictory to the original aims, due to Thatcher’s injection of her ‘problem stream ’ and ‘policy stream ’. Aware that their approach would be unlikely to obtain support and lead to policy change, they successfully camouflaged their ‘problem’ and ‘policy’. The subsequent problems experienced by the 1991 Child Support Act can largely be attributed to the policy itself and its contradictory and conflicting origins; understanding how the policy was developed can help explain some of the CSA’s subsequent problems. By examining the formation of the policy we can clearly identify the separate policy and problem streams that ran through its formation, and highlight how this prescribed the policy to failure.

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