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Balancing work and family can be challenging, but your health and wellbeing come first. Taking full advantage of your benefits, including available leave, supports both your personal life and professional success.
If you are unable to access the policies, contact us.
As well as enhanced maternity leave, we offer paid time off for ante-natal care and pregnancy related sickness. We want to make sure you, and your baby, are as healthy and happy as possible. So time off for ante-natal care may include any relaxation or parenting classes that your doctor, midwife or health visitor has advised you to attend.
Read the Maternity Leave policy (Echonet)
Welcoming a foster child into your family can require your time and attention. We want to ensure that you have the space to give time and attention to your foster child, so if you are legally fostering a child, you will be entitled to up to six days’ paid leave per year.
Read the Fostering Leave policy (Echonet)
Adopting a child / surrogacy
Parental leave supports your wellbeing by giving you time to spend with your child, making memories without balancing your work-life. We offer up unpaid parental leave for each child, which can be taken at any time up until the child’s 18th birthday, in addition to the eligible unpaid parental leave by the UK Government.
Read the Parental Leave policy (Echonet)
Co-parenting leave
Read the Co-Parenting Leave policy (Echonet)
Shared parental leave
Caring for a loved one can be emotionally and physically demanding. Carer’s leave supports your wellbeing by giving you time to manage your caring responsibilities to maintain balance and reduce stress. You are entitled to up to paid carer’s leave if you have a dependent who requires long-term care.
If you lose a child, you have access to parental bereavement leave. This is paid leave (inclusive of any statutory parental bereavement pay). However, we understand everyone copes in different ways, so if you are unable to return to work following a period of parental bereavement leave, further leave may be available as compassionate leave, annual leave, sickness absence or unpaid leave.
Read the Parental Leave policy (Echonet)
If you experience pregnancy loss after the end of the 24th week of pregnancy, you will be eligible for maternity leave and pay. If you experience a pregnancy loss before the end of the 24th week of pregnancy, we recognise you may still need time away from work. If you, or your partner, experience a pregnancy loss, you may take paid leave in addition to any sickness absence.
If you are undergoing fertility treatment, or a partner of someone undergoing fertility treatment, you are entitled to paid leave in order to receive and / or recover from fertility treatment or attend associated appointments, including supporting your partner.
