The UK government recently announced it had no plans to increase paternity leave and pay.
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Charity Working Families has released its annual list of top family-friendly employers in the UK for 2023.
The government’s reforms to paternity leave and pay have been criticised as inadequate and a missed opportunity to reduce gender inequality by charities and experts.
Government has announced it will amend legislation to give new parents more flexibility on when and how they take paternity leave, in response to a public consultation on parental leave and pay.
Paternity leave is not taken at all by 21% of fathers, and financial worries are the biggest reason for this (27%).
Nearly half of employers (46%) would welcome extensions to statutory paternity leave and pay, according to research from the CIPD.
The government's proposed Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill has undergone a second reading in parliament.
Low paternity pay meant just a third of eligible new fathers took paternity leave in the last year.
UK employers are severely lacking when it comes to paternity leave and support for working fathers.
Adoption and surrogacy rates in the UK are on the rise – in the year ending March 2020, there were 3,440 adoptions and 413 parental orders following a surrogacy arrangement.