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People who become parents through a surrogacy arrangement are not numerous (several hundred a year), but they are determined. And when they are so committed to being parents themselves, they have often been surprised that, to date, they had no rights to maternity …
Adoption leave and pay is changing and the changes are great news for those planning to adopt or expecting a child through surrogacy. As someone who considered adopting (but admittedly didn’t get much further than the thinking stage) I am …
A couple of weeks ago, my partner and I had the good fortune to attend the 20-week screening scan for our second child and to learn that everything is progressing well. As with the same scan for our daughter, who …
The new entitlement to shared parental leave and pay will come into effect for parents of babies who are due on or after 5 April 2015, or of children placed for adoption on or after that date. It will replace …
With Shared Parental Leave coming into force for parents of babies due after 05 April 2015, we have been getting questions about how the new system interacts with existing maternity schemes offered by many employers. Given that over a third …
Coverage of shared parental leave, one of our main employment law changes, has picked up recently, not least thanks to our Minister and her husband blazing the trail with their childcare arrangements. It is an ambitious reform – it is …