Law firm Thorntons has introduced new family-friendly policies, including trebling paid maternity leave and upping paternity leave to 12 weeks.

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.

Nearly half of employers (46%) would welcome extensions to statutory paternity leave and pay, according to research from the CIPD.

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.

The BBC has announced that its employees will receive additional maternity or paternity pay if their baby is born prematurely

Research finds half of fathers are unaware of Shared Parental Leave as government says more research is needed before higher funding can be given