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Really useful guidance from ACAS on the Shared Parental Leave regulations available here

I have also been reading up on the changes to adoption and parental leave.  These had gone below my radar does anyone know anything else applying from 6 April onwards  (other than the usual Statutory limits increases)?

Adoptive Leave Changes

Adoptive parents’ rights are to be more closely aligned with those of mothers taking maternity leave.  In addition the amount of statutory adoption pay will increase and adopters will be entitled to paid time off work to attend appointments to have contact with the child.

Parental Leave Enhanced

Parental leave (not to be confused with Shared Parental Leave) is a separate right where employees with at least one year's service have the right to take up to 18 weeks’ unpaid parental leave.  This previously applied to parents of children under 5 but is being extended to parents of children under 18.