Ministers promised a network of expert, impartial advice to help separated parents make “family based” child maintenance arrangements. They lied.

Government-run “expert, impartial advice” was designed by the fraudsters and fathers’ rights fanatics, Karen and Nick Woodall of the Centre for Separated Families.

Most of the “voluntary and community sector” organisations to receive funding were linked to Samantha Callan, the architect of the child maintenance reforms. And very little of the promised funding went to help separated parents make “family based arrangements”.

The YMCA near Samantha Callan’s home received two per cent of the entire two year Voluntary and Community Sector grant from the Department for Education.

Members and allies of the Religious Right

Fathers’ rights and fundamentalists

Secular fathers’ rights activists

Fathers’ rights groups and the Religious Right have forged an alliance over a mutual dread of the “eradication of fatherhood” wrought by feminism.

Friendly with Tim Loughton

Although most of the organisations to receive relationship support funding were linked to Samantha Callan, Interface was funded thanks to its owner’s relationship with the Education Minister.

Several prison charities received funding, although prisoners are not liable to pay child maintenance.

The Government spent around £14 million on a small number of mainly localised pilot projects scattered around the United Kingdom “to see what works”. And CAFCASS funded a bit of mediation for parents at risk of entering the family court system.