The time off to attend adoption appointment must be taken in the period between being notified of a match with a child and the date that the child joins the family: o Single adopters are entitled to paid time off to attend up to 5 adoption appointments. o In the case of joint adoptions (i.e. a couple who have been jointly matched to adopt a child) one of the adopters will be entitled to paid time off to attend up to 5 adoption appointments. The other adopter may be entitled to unpaid time off to attend up to 2 adoption appointments. Where there are joint adopters, the adopter who took paid time off to attend adoption appointments cannot claim paternity leave and pay. This means that the parent who intends to take adoption leave and pay is likely to take the paid time off and the other parent is likely to take the unpaid time off.
Parental Order parents are now entitled to time off to attend antenatal appointments:
On 1 October 2014 Parental Order parents became entitled to take unpaid leave to enable them to accompany the surrogate mother to up to 2 of her antenatal appointments. This is subject to meeting certain criteria, including a 12 week qualifying period of service where the Parental Order parent is an agency worker.
Adopters and their partners and Parental Order parents may be eligible for shared parental leave and pay:
Working parents who adopt a child may also be eligible for shared parental leave and pay where the parent that is eligible for adoption leave and/or pay ends this early to opt into the new shared parental leave and pay system – see: Employers’ Technical Guide to Shared Parental Leave and Pay .
Statutory forms and guidance on GOV.UK 20 April 2015
HMRC has published updated statutory payment scheme forms and guidance on GOV.UK.
Follow the links below to access the relevant forms and guidance.
Statutory Paternity Pay and Leave Statutory Maternity Pay and Leave
Statutory Sick Pay and Leave
Statutory Adoption Pay and Leave
CIPP comment If you notice any discrepancies within any of the guidance on GOV.UK, please do report the details using the ‘Is there anything wrong with this page?’ link at the bottom left of each page.
Statutory Sick Pay: change of address to send SP32 forms 28 April 2015
From 27 April 2015 the address you send your completed SP32 forms to has changed. SP32 forms should now be sent to:
National Insurance Contributions and Employers Office HM Revenue and Customs BX9 1BX
Statutory Sick Pay: manually calculate your employee’s payments
Statutory payments payroll technical specifications 5 May 2015
HMRC has published some new versions of statutory payments specifications for software developers working with payroll software.
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