Dr Christine Skinner. Seminars 1 and 2 for the ESRC International Research Seminar Series on Child Maintenance: International Perspectives and Policy Challenges. 27 and 28 March 2014 at the Nuffield Foundation, London.

1. ESRC – INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
The Department of Social Policy and Social Work
CHILD MAINTENANCE: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
AND POLICY CHALLENGES
ESRC Award Ref: ES/L000792/1

2. Programme
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SEMINARS 1 & 2
FIRST PRINCIPLES: COMPARATIVE LEGAL
FRAMEWORKS AND PUBLIC ATTITUDES
27th and 28th
March 2014,
London
SEMINAR 3
SOCIAL CHANGE IN EAST ASIAN AND DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES: GENDER AND FAMILY SEPARATION
SEMINARS 4 & 5 (TWO DAYS)
POVERTY AND CHILD MAINTENANCE: INTERACTION
WITH SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SCHEMES AND PROBLEMS
OF MEASUREMENT
27th June 2014
York
Spring-Early
Summer 2015
London TBC
SEMINAR 6 (ONE DAY)
FAMILY RELATIONSHIP SUPPORT AND CHILD
MAINTENANCE
September 2015
London TBC

3. Networking
 Join International Network of Child Support
Scholars
INCSS.org
 Promote research on child support
 Support CS scholars
 Providing grant-writing support & feedback
 Publicise work in the field
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4. Photographs
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use photographs University of York Website
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known to me or Nur so we can ensure you
are not photographed.
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5. Programme 27th March
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Time Speaker Papers Chairs
10.10-11.10 Professors Mavis Maclean &
John Eekelaar, University of
Oxford
Comparative Legal
Frameworks
Caroline Bryson
11.10-11.50 Professor Daniel Meyer,
University of Wisconsin-
Madison
USA
11.50-12.05
Comfort Break
12.05- 12.45 Professor Heikki Hiilamo,
University of Helsinki Finland
12.45-13.00 All
General Discussion
13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.00-14.40 Professors Hrefna
Friðriksdóttir & Guðný Björk
Eydal, University of Iceland
Iceland Daniel Meyer
14.40-15.20 Dr. Christine Skinner
UK and Comparative
15.20-15.40
Tea break
15.40-16.10 All
Discussion: principles and operations
across countries?
16.10-16.25 Josine Opmeer, University of
York Research Funding
16.25- 16.40 All
Generating Research Ideas
16.40-16.45 Dr. Christine Skinner
Thanks and Close
19:30
Dinner for speakers and Chairs

6. Programme 28th March
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Time Speaker Papers Chair
10.10-10.45 Professor Steve
McKay, University of
Lincoln
Measuring public
preferences CM
Janet Allbeson,
Gingerbread
10.45- 11.20 Professor Ira Ellman,
Arizona State
University
Attitudes: How much child support?
11.20- 11.40 All
Discussion
11.40- 11.55
Break
11.55-12.40 Caroline Bryson,
BPSR What principles do public prefer?
12.40- 13.40
Lunch
13.40-14.25 Jo Miles, University
of Cambridge Does contact matter?
14.25-15.10 Amy Skipp, NatCen
Social Research Attitudes single parents on benefit
15.10 -15.30
Tea Break
15.30-16.15 Dr. Christine Skinner,
University of York Symbolic meanings of CM
16.15-16.45 All
Discussion: attitudes and behaviours.
New research questions.
16.45-17.00 Dr. Christine Skinner,
University of York Future seminars
Thanks and Close

7. Seminar themes
 Philosophy- Moral Basis of CS?
 What is CS for?
 Fairness, for whom, about what, who decides what is fair?
 Family complexity – new partners/ children
 Father and mothers caring roles – contact
 PA – negotiations, support services, registration
 Balance public & private responsibility children
 Child Poverty, CS, potential or real contribution
 Come Back Please SEMINAR 4 and 5
 THANKYOU
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8. What do we want a Child Support
System to do?
Professor John Eekelaar and Professor Mavis Maclean
1. To play an important role in relieving child poverty?
2. To reinforce moral obligations?
3. To relieve the state’s social welfare budget?
4. To provide a framework for assisting parents to share
some resources after separation on a co-operative
basis?
5. To reflect a fair allocation of resources between
separated parents, and, if so, should the community’s
sense of what would be fair be the basis on which
mandatory rules should be drawn up?
6. To reduce the load on the court system