A ministerial taskforce recently proposed a major overhaul of the Child Support Scheme. While government is currently considering the Taskforce's recommendations, there is little doubt that this review has acted as a stimulus for the collection and integration of a raft of new data to help improve and 'modernise' the Scheme. The author, one of the members of the Taskforce, reflects on the work of the Taskforce in the push towards evidence based policy in the context of a much larger family law reform agenda. He outlines three fundamental proposed changes to the current scheme: that the incomes of both parents count; that the children's ages count, with higher costs allocated for adolescent children; and that the financial costs of contact to non resident parents count.