{"id":4166,"date":"2021-06-18T15:16:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T15:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2021-06-18T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T15:16:46","slug":"government-launches-shared-parental-leave-and-pay-portal-for-working-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/government-launches-shared-parental-leave-and-pay-portal-for-working-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Government launches Shared Parental Leave and Pay portal for working families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new online tool will make it easier for expecting parents to understand and plan statutory Shared Parental Leave and Pay, it has been revealed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The online portal, launched by the Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy (BEIS), can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/shared-parental-leave-and-pay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It follows research suggesting that almost all parents who take advantage of Shared Parental Leave and Pay would recommend it, but few families are aware of its existence.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Shared Parental Leave and Pay scheme, working parents can share up to 50 weeks of leave and up to 37 weeks of pay in the first year of their child\u2019s life \u2013 or within a year of placement if the child is adopted \u2013 giving families \u201cmore choice and flexibility\u201d over the care of their child and helping to level the playing field between working mothers and fathers.<\/p>\n<p>Using the new online tool, parents will be able to check their eligibility for the scheme \u201cin five minutes\u201d, calculate their pay entitlement, and access employment documents to hand to their employer.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the scheme, Labour Markets Minister Paul Scully said: \u201cNothing is more special than seeing your child hit those major milestones like smiling for the first time or starting to crawl \u2013 and both parents should get to share in that joy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShared Parental Leave gives working parents the power to balance and share childcare and work, and this new tool will mean it\u2019s quicker and easier to get that precious time with your baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jane Gratton, Head of People Policy at the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC), added: \u201cShared parental leave supports parents to balance family and career priorities and helps employers retain skills. This tool is a welcome initiative that will hopefully simplify the SPL process, improve access and take-up, and encourage diversity in the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Shared Parental Leave and Pay scheme, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/shared-parental-leave-and-pay\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For help and advice with related matters, please get in touch with our expert team today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new online tool will make it easier for expecting parents to understand and plan statutory Shared Parental Leave and Pay, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,46,88,89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4167,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/4167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}