[Solved] Child maintenace

Your child needs to have started, enrolled or been accepted onto a course that counts before their 19th birthday.
'Full-time' means that, on average, more than 12 hours a week in term time is spent on:
tuition
practical work
supervised study
taking exams
work experience if it's part of your child's course of education
It doesn't include breaks for meals and homework.

'Non-advanced' education includes the following:
GCSEs
A levels
International GCSEs (IGCSEs)
Pre-U
International Baccalaureate
NVQ/SVQ level 1, 2 or 3
BTEC, National Certificate and 1st Diploma
SCE higher grade or similar
Traineeships as part of 16-19 Study Programmes in England

Thanks for replying he's been accepted to do an introduction to construction course in August don't know all the details or qualifications he gets with it as his mother isn't telling me but I think it's Svq/nvq so do ed that mean I will continue paying maintenance until he finishes???

How old is he?
Itf he his under 18 it's unlikely to be an advanced course

Yes probably an NVQ, so CM would be paid until be finishes the course

He's 17 in September, thanks for your help

Hi Tamson69

Thank you for your post. I am William, the Child Maintenance Options consultant. I will provide some information that may help answer your query on when you can stop paying child maintenance for your son.

Under the statutory rules, regular child maintenance payments must be made until a child is 16 years old, or 20 if they are in full-time, non-advanced education (A-level or equivalent), or for as long as Child Benefit is being paid. You can find more information on when child maintenance stops on Gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/when-child-maintenance-payments-stop.

However, if you have agreed child maintenance via a family-based arrangement, there are no strict rules to stick to. Therefore, both you and your child’s other parent have the freedom to decide the terms of your own arrangement, such as when you will finish paying child maintenance for your child. This is because a family-based arrangement is not legally-binding and there is no court or statutory involvement in your arrangement. You can find more information on family-based arrangements on our website at http://www.cmoptions.org/en/family/index.asp.

If you have a case in place with either the Child Support Agency (CSA) or the Child Maintenance Service, you will need to contact the respective organisation that is managing your child maintenance to clarify when your payments will stop. You can find the contact details on any letters that you may have received, or for the CSA, via Gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/child-support-agency.

Where child maintenance has been agreed via the courts, in the form of a Consent Order or Minute of Agreement if you live in Scotland, you will need to review the terms and conditions of your arrangement to clarify how further or higher education has been defined in your arrangement. To do this, you may wish to seek legal advice.

For more information on the ways to set up child maintenance, please visit our website at http://www.cmoptions.org. Alternatively, you can call us free on 0800 988 0988 between 8am and 8pm Monday to Friday or 9am and 4pm on a Saturday. We have a sorting out separation web-app that you may find useful. It offers help and support to separating and separated families. The link is: www.dad.info/divorce-and-separation/sorting-out-separation.

Regards

William