Private firms to chase CSA debts

In another story on BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4625228.stm) it seems that the government is to sell Child Support Agency debts to private firms to collect. The firms will take a share and pass the rest on in child support payments. How well this will work will have to be seen, but I suppose that the parents with care will be better off getting something rather than nothing, even though they are having to give a cut to the debt collectors (who will no doubt concentrate on the 'easy targets'). However, the fact remains that the CSA is long since beyond redemption and must surely be completely replaced. In a wonderful piece of understatement, the caption to the picture on the BBC News page reads: "The CSA has had a troubled history". Indeed.