A Bill to make provision to equalise leave, pay and allowance arrangements for adoptive parents with those of parents whose children are born to them; to equalise eligibility for adoption leave and pay with that of maternity leave and pay; to equalise the rates of pay for the first six weeks of maternity leave and adoption leave; to equalise the entitlement to allowances for self-employed adopters and self-employed mothers; and for connected purposes
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The Adoption (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements) Bill would bring adoption leave, pay and related allowances in line with maternity provisions. It would make adoptive parents eligible for leave and pay on the same basis as parents with babies, set the same basic pay rate for the first six weeks of adoption leave as for maternity leave, and extend certain allowances to self-employed adopters in the same way as self-employed mothers.
The bill is currently at the 2nd Reading in the House of Commons. It originated in the Commons and has not yet progressed to committee stage or the Lords.
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29 Jun 2011
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