Professor Steve McKay has an ongoing project on child maintenance (funded by Nuffield Foundation) with a research team of Stephen McKay (Lincoln University), Ms Caroline Bryson (BPSR), Professor Ira Ellman (Arizona State University) and Joanna Miles (Cambridge University)

A grant amount of £198,674 has helped the project span from November 2011 and will last until March 2014. The excerpt below is taken from the Nuffield Foundation website:

This study will assess whether the British public believes the government should require non-resident parents to pay child maintenance to support their children. It will provide the first detailed examination of how muchmaintenance it believes it should require in different family circumstances.