Government Equalities Office: Families
(asked on 12th December 2017) - View Source
Question
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2017 to Question HL3576, what steps the Government Equalities Office is taking to strengthen families.
This question was answered on 20th December 2017
The Government Equalities Office wants to increase gender equality, including within families. That is why the government has introduced Shared Parental Leave, in order to provide parents with more choice and flexibility in how they divide care between them in the first year of their child’s life. Working parents can share up to 37 weeks of pay and 50 weeks of leave.